Accepted Quote by Robert Todd Carroll Download Open image “Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.” — Robert Todd Carroll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepted Belief Delusion Faith Irrational Irrational beliefs
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“The imagination, as a subset of the lesser “irrational,” has been rejected and devalued by our culture to the point that we acknowledge its… — Sandra Dennis Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they… — Andre Pratte Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
