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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…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does…
— Saint Basil
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
— Aeschylus
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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
— Robert Boyle
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are…
— Ibn Hazm
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not…
— Tertullian
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Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to…
— Baruch Spinoza
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These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb,…
— Pope Leo XIII
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.…
— Eliphas Levi
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