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“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

Way Humans Made Facts Belief Religious Common Emotion Ordinary Adults Human Experience Religious Belief Common Ground

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.”

Self Light Belief Accepting Expression Judgment Adults Setting Settings Acknowledge Subconscious Default Authentic Self Belief In Self Limiting Beliefs

Author:Sue Thoele

“Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.”

Source: The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History

“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.”

Children Certain Belief Attitude Type Development Circumstances Intellectual Adults Importance Experiments Former Acquire Cooperating Intellectual Development

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.”

Source: Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future

“It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.”

Knows Children Belief Understanding Stupid Adults Seven

Book:Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)

“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.”

Knows Persons Said Ideas Matter States Would Be Religion Belief Accepting Virtue Birth Adults Islam Can Not Coercion

Author:Salman Rushdie

“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”

People Needs Children Hard Care Age Dies Culture Belief Childhood Periods Adults Myth Old Age Be You Drudgery

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.”

Should Able Political Belief Decision Party Adults Aspect Originals Favors Liberalism Political Parties Compatible

Book:Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar

Source: Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar

“We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.”

Should Christian Belief Religious Adults Ideals Credit Ashamed Religious Freedom Religious Belief Spirited

Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

Inspirational Age Belief Growing Up Mines Adults Aging Disguise Cat Eye

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.”

Care Belief Wish Dark Existence Adults Bases Mark Endure Patterns Rage Spite Urges Fervent

Book:Insight and Responsibility

Source: Insight and Responsibility