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Eliezer Yudkowsky

What people really believe doesn’t feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

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John Stuart Mill

Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.

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If others in the same Glass better see ‘Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.

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Michael Davidow

People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good thing. Because all belief stands for something that’s better. All belief comes from wanting to believe. People aren’t up to the real thing, though. So they substitute. And that harms them. It’s the problem of problems. I like it a lot.

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Terry Pratchett

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

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I don’t think He bargains.”“Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide some evidence.’“That He exists?”“That He cares.

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Abraham Verghese

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

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There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

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He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn’t believe in people.

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Being poised to shatter the adaptive illusion of God is arguably one of the most significant turning points our species has ever faced in its relatively brief 150,000-year history. The belief instinct may never be completely deprogrammed in our animal brains, but by understanding it for what it is rather than subscribing uncritically to the intuitions it generates, we can distance ourselves from an adaptive system that was designed, ultimately, to keep us hobbled in fear.

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Milton A. Rothhman

Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed.

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Kedar Nath Tiwari

Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.

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