If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Confidence is a word born of a deeply primal wish. And it is rendered a wish simply because it is rarely a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We do have the ability to shift our paradigms - by shifting our belief systems, by working on ourselves, by looking very… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
We believe in the joy and power of music, and we also see that to make this kind of statement today, you… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality.… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
All over the world kids and women [are] getting killed right now over beliefs, this is silly to get angry over. If… — Diplo Copy Share Image
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![“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off…” quote by Henrik Ibsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b3f/henrik-ibsen-1419_belief_ghosts-i-almost-think-we-are-all-of-us-g_3184486.jpg)
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