I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in ...
Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use words like ideology, politics, defence, security, patriotism, commerce, industry, marketing, consumerism and beli...
The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to s...
Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will ...
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
Beliefs divide us, values unite us." from Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs
Beliefs divide us; values unite us." Godless - Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs.
Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as ...
The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is not utopian. It is merely to provide good reasons for being an atheist. … My object is to show that atheism is a rational position and t...
I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Som...
