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Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

Basically these are beliefs about apocalypse that we have seen as truth in Western civilization for the last couple of hundred years. So we live according to these "truths" and as a result manifesting a life using those beliefs, which can be very self-destructive.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.