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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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You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there…
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The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce…
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…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one…
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It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own…
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I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an…
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The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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