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Belief
«The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups»
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| About:
Belief,
Life,
Loneliness,
Principles
| Keywords:
conviction, curious, human existence, inevitable, peculiar, phenomenon, rests, solitary, The central
«The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.»
«The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.»
«The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
atoms, contingent, contingent on, modern science, novelty, preferences, radical, rejection
«The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
impulses, reformative, sadistic
«The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
false belief, stability, statesman, The Statesman
«The prince of darkness is a gentleman»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
gentleman, prince, prince of, Prince of Darkness, The Prince, The Prince of Darkness