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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it…
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely…
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…
— Baruch Spinoza
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In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and…
— Jay E. Adams
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.…
— H. L. Mencken
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God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he…
— Andrew Sandlin
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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,…
— John Stuart Mill
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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical;…
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