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If religious belief be indeed ...

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

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... All ideas need to be heard...

... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.

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The object of universities is ...

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

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Trade is a social act....

Trade is a social act.

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All social inequalities which ...

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

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Each undervalues that part of ...

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

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In the long-run, the best proo...

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

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Protection, therefore, against...

Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.

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A being who can create a race ...

A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

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The habit of analysis has a te...

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

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No one can be a great thinker ...

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

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Both teachers and learners go ...

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

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Persons of genius, it is true,...

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

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He who lets the world choose h...

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

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A [psychological] difficulty i...

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

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Induction is a process of infe...

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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To refuse a hearing to an opin...

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

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There is a tolerably general a...

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

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My father never permitted anyt...

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

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In this age, the man who dares...

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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