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“Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.”

May Belief Crime Regret Weakness Commitment Criticism

Author:Imre Lakatos

“Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.”

Done Reality Belief Left Felt Religious Regret Burden Guilty Anxious Slips Belief In God Inadequacy Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

People Ifs Should Running Past Belief Causes Steps Risk Trouble Changed Regret Normal Trade Historian Mistaken Vocation Conservatism

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”

Thinking Moments Belief Special Youth Regret Privilege Firm Present Moment Looking Forward Possessing Firm Beliefs

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.”

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

Want Inspirational Motivation Night Belief Regret Living My Life

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

Truth Faith Belief Regret Truth Is Survival Statistics Collision

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.”

Believe Ends Belief Regret

Author:Robert Breault

“I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.”

People Should Believe Long Has Beens Ends Age Courses Belief I Believe My Own Written Minutes Regret Expectations Decided Scripts Determine Creator Epic End Of Life Timidity

Book:End of the Spear

Source: End of the Spear