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Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

~William Kingdon Clifford

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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 committed it already in his heart.

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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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Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

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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 which clog his race.

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

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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 feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

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To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: May 4th, 1845

Died: March 3rd, 1879

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