If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Gordon A. EadieTags: belief integrity misattributed-to-malcolm-x misattributed-to-rosa-parks
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. DickTags: 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 AdamsTags: 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.
Tags: intelligence belief
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Ursula K. Le GuinA casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: insanity belief faith delusions
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeTags: 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 WillardThe 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 BloomTags: reading books vision belief self-deception narrowmindedness self-limiting-beliefs
belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton WilsonTags: intelligence philosophy belief religion faith atheism metaphysics
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