Mark Blyth Quotes

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

It is what men think that determines how they act

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

The opinions of people are determined by their interests.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things