Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of...

People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I’ve been told: ‘Western...

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We’re encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we’re being told – or what...

When they find what they don’t like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they’ve ever seen.’ ‘Why?’ asked Isobel. ‘Because . . . because...

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don’t agree.

Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

saved” that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn’t fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the...

I’m kind of an evangelical atheist.

A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does...

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. […] It’s a...

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories,...

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

I refuse to permit anything or anyone to steal my joy regardless of how dire the circumstance is. Happiness is now a way of living for me because I decided a decade ago that it...

The possibilities far outweigh the disappointments. Keep learning, keep believing and keep seeking.

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

Netikiu už pojūčių ribos egzistuojančia nuojauta, žaibu, vandeniline bomba ar net tokiais daiktais kaip žibutės, žuvų pulkai, bet žinau, kad jie egzistuoja. Netikiu šmėklomis, nors esu jų matęs.

A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, “Image is everything”? And who believed it?

Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

Do not believe the road signs. There is no “one way.” If it’s your truth then it’s the right way.

There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If...

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Everything remains the same if your thought pattern stays unchanged. For any permanent positive change to happen in your life, you MUST first change yourself on the inside. Start paying close attention to your daily...

Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the...

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come from?...

At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different,...

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

The first generation of therapists doing this work were told by their clients that the one massive cult was everywhere, knew everything, had access to state-of-the-art technology, and was willing to kill both clients and...

If you’re a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.

I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.”...

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised,” Tel Hesani said. “But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders...

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

Take positive care of your mind, and it would surely take positive care of your life.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny.

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.

Death or Samadhi, man’s life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life.