"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 Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

Power, Belief, Investigation, Sense

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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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"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."

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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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"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."

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

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"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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

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