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"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."


"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."


"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."


"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."


"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."
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