We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in),… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
He stepped into the morning feeling more alive than he'd felt in months. Hold fast and believe in me, love, he whispered… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Human rights are being told all over the world, but there is no state where the economical freedom is being told. Economical… — Ilkin Santak 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
I've always been fascinated by how inherently nosy people are, and how we've always had this thirst for gossip. There's this widespread… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
O you who believe! when the call is made for prayer on Friday, then hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave… — Quran Copy Share Image
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“People hear that you grew up religious, and they can’t imagine you’d have a complex relationship with faith. If you believe one… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I'm very vocal about my belief that all religion is garbage. Most of my friends are religious or at least spiritual. These… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse,… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts.… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“If you believe you can change—if you make it a habit—the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image