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"Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors."
"Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society."
"Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity."
"Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices."
"The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses."
"Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself."
"Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings."
"There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse."
"I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'"
"A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock"
"Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany."
"The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
"Belief is the wound that knowledge heals."
"Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners."
"For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true"
"Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love."
"It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans."
"To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it."
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
"The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become."
