#beliefs

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ↗

— Christy Turlington

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order. ↗

— Asa Gray

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