Beliefs
Beliefs and practices vary widely among different Pagan groups, however there are a series of core principles common to most, if not all, forms of contemporary Paganism. The English academic Graham Harvey noted that Pagans "rarely indulge in theology."
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Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:
“All beliefs are bald ideas.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.”
—Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)