“It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.” IfsBeliefWomenRoomsPiecesDiscussionGossipIndulgenceJuicy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.” MadeBeliefStuffUnderstandingViewsPiecesPicksBasesAssumptionExposedCardinalsCardinal Rules Book:The Search for Truth Source: The Search for Truth
“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.” WorldMomentsBeliefCommonPiecesRightsRocksThis WorldPropertyPossessionCultCavesConsumedRipeRubbishProperty RightsDisdainHystericalInterveningEarthly Possessions Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingInspirationSpiritualOrderOpportunityBeliefQualityPiecesMovementAmbitionEternalSellsCompetitionAvailableAbundanceEnlightenedCollaborationPieScarcityGet Ahead Author:Marianne Williamson