What We Believe

A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person’s life.
~ Sam Harris

 The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~ R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist

 Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
~Jason Silva

Whether or not you have realized it, your address and your membership to the human species have condemned you to a life sentence atop the crust of a spherical madhouse.
~ Guy Harrison

Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas, furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in all the varieties of fiction and vision.

~ David Hume


We have the technological power and engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; but we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.
~ Terence McKenna


 The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is, but that you can see the world as it isn’t. We can remember the past and we can think about the future, and we can imagine what it’s like to be some other person in some other place. And we all do this differently.
~ Kathryn Schulz


 At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, and the taste of banana ice cream.
~ David Berlinski


 We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~ Richard Feynman


In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
~ Donny Miller


Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich


A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
~ Aldous Huxley


 If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
~ Albert Camus


To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 
~ Nelson Mandela
 
The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning — that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.
~ Dean Koontz

 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
~Albert Einstein

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
~ C.S. Lewis

 

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.