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“Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.”

“But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi”

People Knows Believe Stills Belief I Believe Christ Cases Humour Normal Evidence Definitions I Believe In Delusion Locks Irrational Respecting Others Lock Up

Book:The Enemy of the Good

Source: The Enemy of the Good

“Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.”

Matter Mother Order Belief Liberty Amount Definitions Operations Anarchy Anarchism Compatible

Book:Instead of a Book

Source: Instead of a Book

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.”

Source: How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.”

Firsts Persons Hands Belief Practice Greater Degrees Direct Regard Historical Definitions Intuition Accepted Psychological Mysticism Mystic Personal Knowledge

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.”

Believe Ideas Belief Dangerous Ultimate Absolutes Definitions Supreme Fixed Acceptable Unconditional

Author:Joshua Fernandez

“Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.”

Ifs Believe Reason Belief Prove Ordinary Definitions Justified

Author:Colin McGinn

“I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.”

Said Two Belief Definitions Definition Of Love

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.”

May Individual Belief Given Objects Pure Degrees Essence Universal Relation Definitions Complexity

Author:George Santayana

“I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.”

Ifs Knows Belief Atheist Definitions Accepted Belief In God

Author:George Carlin

“God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.”

Would Be Religion Faith Belief Impossible Ignorance Built Definitions Have Faith

Book:More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

“The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.”

People Ideas Belief Religious Easier Holy Solutions Agree Notion Definitions Terrorism Core Scholar Submission Summit Mock Holy Places Core Beliefs

Author:Scott Adams

“In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.”

People Seems Spiritual Belief Church Religious Definitions Various Attendance Non Religious Spiritual Beliefs Church Attendance

Author:Gretchen Rubin