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William Kingdon Clifford has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…
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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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I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,…
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I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man…
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To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about…
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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
— Ben Jonson
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There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
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If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with…
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in…
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When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize…
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Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty.…
— Mark Driscoll
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