It is not rational arguments but emotions that cause belief in a future life.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
At least some of them, I suspect, have turned to probability theory in the hope that it would give them what they had originally expected from a subjectivist or epistemological theory of the attainment of truth through verification; that is, a theory of rational and justifiable belief, based upon observed instances.
belief / subjectivist / theory / truth
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
Belief is like love: it cannot be compelled; and as any attempt to compel love produces hate, so it is the attempt to compel belief which first produces real unbelief.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
What does belief applied to the unconscious signify? What is an unconscious that no longer does anything but believe, rather than produce? What are the operations, the artifices that inject the unconscious with ‘beliefs’ that are not even rational, but on the contrary only too reasonable and consistent with the established order?
belief / order / unconscious
Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.