T Quotes
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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.”
“The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.”
Source: A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book
“The belief in causality is metaphysical. It is nothing but a typical metaphysical hypostatization of a well-justified methodological rule- the scientist's decision never to abandon his search for laws. The metaphysical belief in causality seems thus more fertile in its various manifestations than any indeterminist physics metaphysics of the kind advocated by Heisenberg. Indeed, we can see that Heisenberg's comments have had a crippling effect on research. Connections which are not far to seek may easily be overlooked if its continually repeated that the search for any such connections is 'meaningless'.”
Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.”
Source: Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks
“The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.”
“The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.”
“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.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“The belief in God creates hope for the hopeless and gives strength to the weak. Those who ridicule miracles when they are strong, often expect the same when they feel hopeless.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.”
“The belief in Limitation is the basis of all jealousy, and jealousy leads to Possession. Possession is the idea that you must hold tightly to that which you love or it might escape. In truth, it does not escape. It loses its value to the holder and often creates contempt. True power attracts the sweet pleasure of liberation within the harmony of love.”
“The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.”
Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens
“The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.”
“The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.”
Source: Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses
“The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.”
“The belief in the ‘easy way’ is one of the greatest pieces of fiction mankind has ever created.”
“The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.”
“The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
“The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.”
Source: How We Die
“The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.”
“The belief in UFO contact, and the expectation of visitation by beings from space, is promoted by certain groups of people who are responsible for advertising UFO contacts, for circulating faked photographs (often in connection with genuine sightings), for interfering with witnesses and researchers, and for generating systematic “disinformation” about the phenomenon. We may find that they belong, or have access, to military, media, and government circles. In these games it is not clear exactly which side is infiltrating the other.”
Source: Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
“The belief in you is the light you know. The relief it brings is the joy that grows. The dream you enjoy is the fantasy you live. If you find yourself lacking its because you are chasing dreams and not attracting the fantasy.”
“The belief in you is the light you know. The relief it brings is the joy that grows. The dream you enjoy is the fantasy you live. If you find yourself lacking, stop chasing dreams and start attracting the fantasy.”
“The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.”
Source: The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution
“The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.”
“The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.”
Source: Collected works of Joseph Glanvill
“The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“The belief that a man not being able to orgasm in whatever way he wants is a tragedy, and something that - no matter how drastic - must be done about it, is in fact the bread and butter of male supremacy. to this end, men have created prostitution, pornography, sex dolls and even the oppression of women, which includes an expectation that women will do whatever it takes to satisfy male sexual urges, and take responsibility for male sexual offending.”
Source: Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective
“The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.”
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest.”
“The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.”
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
Source: Experience And Education
“The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.”
“The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“The belief that blind trust is necessary in a successful relationship is false and is a distraction to the real issues of recovery. Recovery is less about trusting the gambler and more about trusting ourselves. We have already experienced the dangers of trusting someone who has not earned our trust. Trust is something that will come over time during the recovery process. How much trust to give the gamblers, and when, is a personal decision.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“The belief that children must be punished to learn better behaviors is illogical. Children learn to roll, crawl, walk, talk, read, and other complex behaviors without a need for punishment. Why, then, wouldn't the same gentle guidance, support, and awareness of developmental capabilities that parents employ to help their little ones learn those complex skills also work to help them learn to pet the cat gently and draw on paper instead of walls?”
“The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.”
“The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.”
“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”
“The belief that "existence" and "reality" are synonymous with the human sensory world is just a case of human centrism that fails to recognize that the human view of the world is just one view of the universe and there are many other views just as valid as ours. It is an irrational bias or prejudice that cannot be justified as our sensory apparatus arose through a process of biological evolution, the same as those of all other species. It is also obvious our sensory apparatus is not any better than that of other species. It is our careless, sloppy and imprecise use of language, and our failure to understand the existence of other sensory worlds, that constitute the problem with wave function collapse.”
“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”
“The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“The belief that government is anything but tyrannical is a fallacy. Government always leads to tyranny; therefore, it is tyrannical in nature.”
Source: COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny
“The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.”
Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast
“The belief that heaven is above us was made even more ridiculous by the discovery of the fact that the world is not flat but round.”
“The belief that ignites hope in the heart of a person to survive is the same belief that boosts the ego of the person and deters his progress by clouding his judgments.”
Source: Solemn Tales of Human Hearts
“The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.”