strings: Now as regards ideas which are part of our daily existence, beliefs and formulations, are they not distorting our minds ? For what is stupidity ? Stupidity is the, giving of wrong values to those things which the mind creates, or to those things W'hich the hands produce. Most of our thoughts spring from the self-protective instinct, do they not? Our ideas, oh, so many of them, do they not receive the wrong significance, one which they have not in themselves ? Therefore when we believe in any form, whether religious, economic or social, when we believe in God, in ideas, in a social system which separates man from man, in nationalism and so on, SD-rely we are giving a wrong significance to belief, which indicates stupidity, for belief divides people, doesn't unite people. So we see that by the way we live we can produce order or chaos, peace or conflict, happiness or misery.