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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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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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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…
— Rajneesh
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Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry…
— Aristotle
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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
— Thomas Carlyle
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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes,…
— Bruce Lee
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But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the…
— Thomas Paine
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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
— John Donne
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A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must…
— Nelson Mandela
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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of…
— Edward Gibbon
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in…
— Aldous Huxley
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