Belief Systems Quotes

“So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein's monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried - a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lately who pioneered a new genus of humbuggery for an emerging market of believers that was not being adequately served by existing religious products. They trust in anything that authenticates their importance as persons, tribes, societies, and particularly as a species that will endure in this world and perhaps in an afterworld that may be uncertain in its reality and unclear in its layout, but which states their craving for values "not of this earth" - that depressing, meaningless place their consciousness must sidestep every day.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Each of your brains creates its own myth about the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Whatever you believe is true is true even if it is not true”
― Saji Ijiyemi

“People tend to accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and feelings, and reject information that contradicts them. This is called “motivated reasoning,” and it means that providing people with corrective information often does not work and may even strengthen their original beliefs. This also means that when people receive new information, their existing beliefs and feelings may have more influence over whether they believe or reject this information than rational reasoning.”
― Rachel Hilary Brown, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech

“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of the Kingdom of God gave rise to all the scriptures in the world, but the scriptures themselves don’t account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human mind. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Theology is a study of the series of disagreements that are the world's religions. Atheism fundamentally disagrees with these disagreements that preceded it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Every brain on your planet generates its own beliefs. Just imagine, around seven billion human brains are generating seven billion unique beliefs at this very moment. Now imagine, what would happen, if all those seven billion humans start imposing their own beliefs on each other. The only thing that is going to come out of such inhuman attempt is chaos and eventually mass extinction. So, the only way to avoid such a catastrophic consequence is to be more compassionate about people’s beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Attitudes and ignorance” about (any type of) abuse can be passed down through the generations. It is important to our healing that we sort out the belief systems we adopt; belief systems that were taught to us and because they are so full of lies, they lead to all kinds of depressions, addictions and other struggles while we try to cope with the manifestations of the problems instead of the roots of the problems.”
― Darlene Ouimet

“When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life, the belief adorns that person with various positive psychological elements such as emotional stability, in times of distress and a highly functional moral compass. Here this belief has nothing to do with reality whatsoever, rather it serves the evolutionary purpose of self-preservation.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Art is the way to galaxies, to grab some miracles here on earth which are impossible to the rest of the world, it always challenges the obsolete belief systems. As i read somewhere a very beautiful message for life and growth, "Break the systems if they kill your art, souls and creativity, walk alone if it's necessary." enjoy the process.

~ Mohsin Ali Shaukat”
― Mohsin Ali Shaukat

“Not only does it matter politically how we rank the vices, but freedom demands that as a matter of liberal policy we must learn to endure enormous differences in the relative importance that various individuals and groups attach to the vices. There is a vast gulf between the seven deadly sins, with their emphasis on pride and self-indulgence, and putting cruelty first. These choice are not casual or due merely to the variety of our purely personal dispositions and emotional inclinations. These different ranking orders are parts of very dissimilar systems of values. Some may be extremely old, for the structure of beliefs does not alter nearly as quickly as the more tangible conditions of life. In fact, they do not die at all; they just accumulate one on top of the other. Europe has always had a tradition of traditions, as our demographic and religious history makes amply clear. It is no use looking back to some imaginary classical or medieval utopia of moral and political unanimity, not to mention the horror of planning one for the future. Thinking about the vices has, indeed, the effect of showing precisely to what extent ours is a culture of many subcultures, of layer upon layer of ancient religious and class rituals, ethnic inheritance of sensibility and manners, and ideological residues whose original purpose has by now been utterly forgotten. With this in view, liberal democracy becomes more a recipe for survival than a project for the perfectibility of mankind.”
― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices

“To Laver, Crowley insisted upon magic as "something we do to ourselves," a rational use of one's mental capacities: "It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an Angel who gives us new knowledge than to allege that our invocation has awakened a supernatural power in ourselves.”
― Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley

“Why does the mind crave superstition! It's because superstition is a psychological apparatus for self-preservation. And it appears to us as truth because the only truth our brain is concerned with is the one that takes away our anxiety and aids in our survival, even if that truth happens to be just another lie our brain cooks up to maintain internal order.

However, neurologically speaking, there is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition. So, it's not about developing a mind without superstition, which is impossible, rather it is about being aware of the superstitions as much as possible, and reject those that are particularly harmful, for the self and society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“It doesn’t matter whether you face the wall, the sky or the ground. It doesn’t matter what is your body posture while you are praying to God. It doesn’t matter whether you sit in a lotus position, or a bogus position, neither does it bother God whether your palms are joined together, or your arms wide open. God would still answer your prayers, not because he/she loves you all as his/her children, rather because you believe that God does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.”
― Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment

“And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.”
― Gwendolyn MacEwen, Julian the Magician

“Your Belief in a particular ideology does not cause it's truth, and your disbelief cannot cause it's falsehood. The duality of belief and doubt does not encompass or describe the great miracle of the eternal Tao; the sacred reality which is prior to and beyond all mental activity or fixated belief/disbelief structures.”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“If you remove a belief and leave nothing in its place, your circuit is not complete and it is difficult to process anything through the circuit. If you put a new belief into the circuit, it remains whole.”
― Tamara Lechner, The Happiness Reset: What to do When Nothing Makes You Happy

“The experience that Mr. Smith had is a cultural and spiritual experience, that turned out very badly, but, it’s a cultural experience, not a mental illness. He is no more mentally ill than any other belief system that we have that is criticized at times as irrational as well. (quoting Angela Greene, Public Defender)”
― James Dommek Jr., Midnight Son

“You never hear white people vouching for our spiritual experiences. It’s like we don’t get to have these anymore. The missionaries took those away and told us they were evil. Instead they told us stories like a Virgin had a baby and people are walking on water… well, ok. But here is a Public Defender arguing that what we believe in is just as valid as any other religion. Whether or not she’s actually that open-minded or just calculating, I don’t know. But this is just a hint of what’s to come with the Iñukuns and the Alaskan justice system.”
― James Dommek Jr., Midnight Son

“Superstition is a psychological apparatus for self-preservation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Lately, my mental incapacitation has forced me into an overwhelmingly state of idlement. Internally, I exist in a condensed space of nothingness. The core of my belief system has been gutted and is being destroyed at an immensely slow pace. Flashes of erred calculations flicker in the matrix of my mind. My being has been compromised, causing me to malfunction as an effective entity. My avatar reacts and responds from muscle memory. I am absent from the simple tenses with a portion of curiosity taking shelter in a small pocket of my subconscious.

The brand assigned to my identity at birth interrupts any chance of a breakthrough with it’s demanding and commanding duties.

What is Truth? Knowledge? or Belief?

Truth is a strategic manipulation coded in to my design causing me to believe in a man made system known as knowledge, overiding my original format.”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse

“Belief is a poor substitute for certain knowledge.”
― Fred Hoyle, Facts and Dogmas in Cosmology and Elsewhere: The Rede Lecture 1982

“By nature, we want the things we believe in to yield positive results. Usually, drugs yield a positive experience short term, and negative consequences long term. The irony is that even when we can see that something we believe in yields negative results that harm us, instead of changing our beliefs, we try to change the consequences associated with them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“In my case, I continued believing that drugs were life’s ultimate joy and pleasure, instead of accepting that they were harming me. I refused to change my life, continued using drugs, and expected there to be different consequences.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Spirituality makes everything a reality. Religion is the only belief system that turns things into a delusion.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Marcos rolled his eyes; he believed he had an infinite number of lives to try on and discard.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart