One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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