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"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
"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."
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