The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned, I believe you can't appreciate real love till you've been… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not an action, it is a vision. Worldly people’s vision is towards worldly life whereas ‘this’ is a spiritual vision.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Faith in what you can not see is a sign of belief, that a reward is coming and when it comes you'll… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The idea that we should check on our unreflective belief acquisition sounds great, but we need to know whether the processes of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes,… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I prefer to have my beliefs to offer more than a… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep… — Arthur Chu Copy Share Image
In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of… — Carrie Ann Inaba Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Turks know that if they want to join the EU, then they must respect our rules. We are a union of… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image