cherished beliefs Quotes

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

You can't take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.