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“Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.”

Mind Book States Seems Belief Understanding Church Religious Understood Sacred Priests

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

“Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.”

Men Believe Belief Liberty Please Speech Understood Conscience

Book:The works ...

Source: The works ...

“I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.”

Belief Technology Reader Understood Artificial Intelligence Artificial Belief Systems

Author:Jaron Lanier

“In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.”

Firsts Littles Doe Made Happens Religion Belief Nations Clear Sky Share Worship Understood Constitution England Curious Made It Amendments Superstitions Founders First Amendment Taboo

Author:Gore Vidal

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Ifs May Belief Worst Understood Doctrine

Book:The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Source: The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”

World Believe Doe Said Artist Order Belief Force Wish Share Poet Understood Visionaries Provinces Tolerable

Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.”

Ifs World Different Real Belief Lines Results Understood Logic Opposites Absolutes Mathematics Equality Circles Assumption Real World Identical Straight Lines

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”

Long Truth Belief Understood Disappointment Propositions

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Needs Belief Social Morality Understood Decline Right Way Elixir

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.”