Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Twilight of the Idols
Source: Twilight of the Idols
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As quoted in Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965) by Christopher Isherwood, p. 263
Context: It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Source: A Million Little Pieces
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Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
On not reading reviews of her acting.
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Walter Veith
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Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks http://singularity.org/files/CognitiveBiases.pdf, a chapter of Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)
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