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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

Stichwörter: reality belief real-life

I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.

Douglas Adams

Stichwörter: humor science belief atheism burden-of-proof explanation interview

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

Stichwörter: intelligence belief

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Stichwörter: knowledge belief

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stichwörter: insanity belief faith delusions

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Stichwörter: truth belief death ideals martyr

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Dallas Willard

Stichwörter: doubt belief faith

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

Stichwörter: reading books vision belief self-deception narrowmindedness self-limiting-beliefs