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“We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.”

Believe Humans Has Beens Important School Choices Belief Virtue Taught Highest Chosen Irony Shopping Consumerism Malls Overconsumption Supermarkets Personal Choice

Author:William Henry Willimon

“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”

Firsts Ends Happens Science Belief Highest Conscience Court Conviction Physicist Lawfulness

Author:Max Planck

“The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.”

Mind Humans Belief Highest Human Mind Belief In God

Author:Morgan Freeman

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”

World May Shows Feelings Form Belief Lines Animal Expression Succeed Highest Draws Absolutes Add Intellect Scales Distinction Faculty Animal World

Author:Thomas Huxley

“You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.”

Choices Belief Highest Denial Live Your Life Demonstration

Book:The New Revelations: A Conversation with God

Source: The New Revelations: A Conversation with God

“I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.”

World Book Self Light Belief Highest Illusion Slavery Invites True Self Frequency Wholeheartedly Mental Slavery

Author:Carlos Santana

“[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.”

Form Belief Pride Development Highest Certainty Sublime Identification Pathos Involuntary

Book:The Pre-Platonic Philosophers

Source: The Pre-Platonic Philosophers