Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.William Kingdon Clifford
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
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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 amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
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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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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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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
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