Robert Todd Carroll famous quotes

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A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Anarchy #Mental Illness #Delusion
Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Humility #Looks #Busy
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#God #Religion #World
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Spiritual #Atheist #Reality
Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Belief #Accepted #Irrational
The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Self #Deception #Infinite
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Hard Work #Long #Analysis
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Example #Answers #Groups

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Robert Todd Carroll famous quotes

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