So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Believe - Belief Quotes
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward.
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn’t there… what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe […]
I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
A belief is not true because it is useful.
