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"I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery."
"Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious."
"Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact."
"A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail."
"It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe."
"Thought is the strongest thing we have."
"Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants."
"Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals."
"No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about."
"A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence."
"If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end, The future might stop emerging out of the past, Out of what is full of us; yet the search And the future emerging out of us seem to be one."
"The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing."
"The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose."
"Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs."
"You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus."
"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
"Our beliefs are really rules for action."
"Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact."
"... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace."
"The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees."
