One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example… — Tom Giaquinto Copy Share Image
I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata,… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions,… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“What does belief applied to the unconscious signify? What is an unconscious that no longer does anything but believe, rather than produce?… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation of life ... I do… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
“God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, 'Hey stupid, can't you speak English?' Now… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
“I pray that the world never runs out of dragons. I say that in all sincerity, though I have played a part… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religion into the dustbin of history. What is… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
I think that if you have someone who has a certain belief, that doesn't mean that they're necessarily judging you. For example,… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky.… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said:… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
