#belief

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#dogma #knowledge #attitude

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#evil #psychoanalysis #religion #religion

The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#confidence #inner-searching #self-esteem #self-belief

He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother’s womb ↗

— Ann Rinaldi

#faith #god #love #purpose #faith

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bring #captain #fail #failed #false

We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith. ↗

— Ramsey Isler

#death #faith #fantasy #philosophy #death

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #beliefs #curiosity #formed #how

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#dark #dark time #environment #incompatible #just