“It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.” IndividualBeliefForceNationsImagineEffectsMilitaryTypeDemandFollyAggressiveImagine ThatPaymentOpposingFormidableSusceptibleDeterrent Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.” PeopleWorldBelievePersonsHelpingFeelingsSpiritualDesireSpiritualityBeliefExistenceImagineConnectionsAtheistAppreciationFortunateImagine ThatSensitivityLiving ThingsWithout GodExistence Of GodLess FortunateNature And Beauty Author:Alan Lightman
“...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” IfsMindBelieveMayChildrenRealHomeBeliefImagineStupidThousandTenEdgesWoodsVampireStakesPeasantsMedieval Author:Stephen King
“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.” IfsMenDoeSoulReasonCharacterBodyBeliefImagineImpossibleAtheismSubjectsProveEvidenceIndependentPositive AtheismJustifiedDisbeliefScrapImpossible ThingsResidence Book:Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.” LifeDoeRealDreamSeemsLife IsBeliefImagineEvidenceWakingImagine ThatUnrealWaking Life Author:Wei Wu Wei
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.” KnowsShouldMindWholeAbleDesireHateBeliefWishInterestAttitudeImagineEmotionalMaterialsNegativeRelationDeterminedBiasSubjectiveSweepingLove And HateSuppressionPreconceptionsFear Of LoveHopes And FearsEmotional Life Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic
“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.” PeopleIfsBelieveSaidBeliefOpinionImagineFoolAccountsHillsIndifferentPropose Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.” IfsBelieveHas BeensBeliefGivenImagineBelieve In GodImagine That Author:Daniel Dennett
“The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over.” IfsSpiritNightBeliefImagineMereMortalsRestrictionPower Of BeliefMere Mortals Author:Richard Cabral
“Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.” PeopleWantMindBelieveBeliefCausesImagineIgnoranceStubbornStubbornnessPresumptionPettiness Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable