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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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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes…
— William C. Bryant
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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions…
— Charles Ferguson
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been…
— Immanuel Kant
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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a…
— Andre Gide
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Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the…
— Joseph Black
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