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

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

Belief, Deeds, Future, Guidance

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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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"We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way."

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"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

Obvious,

"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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

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

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