Belief Quote by William S. Burroughs

“In The Future of an Illusion, Freud made the obvious point that religion suffered from one incurable deficiency: it was too clearly derived from…

— Christopher Hitchens

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

— Alan Watts

“Thought is Creation”

— Westly Shakespeares

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

— Pascal Boyer

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely…

— John Ortberg

A belief is really only a thought that you keep thinking.

— Esther Hicks

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

— Louise Hay

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Its not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

— Anonymous

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

— Thucydides

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on…

— Aristotle