Jeff Baena Quotes

A world view is probably an expression of self.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Every dogma has its day.

Man is what he believes.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests.

It is what men think that determines how they act

The opinions of people are determined by their interests.