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Belief systems Quotes

"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having a dinner conversation with you."

"You become what you think about all day long"

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry"

"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste"

"People want to protect their own hypocrisy; they know they have lied and manipulated, but they frame their beliefs as science."

"The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"

"Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic."

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality."

"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder"

"Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse"

"Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings."

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