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Belief Quotes - Page 23

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.17, Clube de Autores

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

1970 Do WhatYou Will, pt.2, ch.15.

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it.

Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.

"Guy Ritchie opens up his mind" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.117, A&C Black

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

"Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

"American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".