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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Belief gets in the way of learning.