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• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
• The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
• If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
• When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
• Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
• We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
• There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
• An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
• Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
• He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
• If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

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