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He who truly believes that whi...

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.

William Clifford 26 quotes

We feel much happier and more ...

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

William Clifford 26 quotes

To know all about anything is ...

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

William Clifford 26 quotes

Our lives our guided by that g...

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

William Clifford 26 quotes

An atom must be at least as co...

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

William Clifford 26 quotes

This sense of power is the hig...

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.

William Clifford 26 quotes

There is one thing in the worl...

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

William Clifford 26 quotes

scientific thought does not me...

scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.

William Clifford 26 quotes

All our liberties are due to m...

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

William Clifford 26 quotes

The harm which is done by cred...

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.

William Clifford 26 quotes

No simplicity of mind, no obsc...

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

William Clifford 26 quotes

Namely, we have no right to be...

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Clifford 26 quotes

If a belief is not realized im...

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

William Clifford 26 quotes

A little reflection will show ...

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

William Clifford 26 quotes

Every rustic who delivers in t...

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.

William Clifford 26 quotes

An atmosphere of beliefs and c...

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.

William Clifford 26 quotes

The aim of scientific thought,...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

William Clifford 26 quotes

There is no scientific discove...

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture Ђ' that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Clifford 26 quotes

Thought is powerless, except i...

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

William Clifford 26 quotes

It cannot be doubted that thei...

It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

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