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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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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
"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."
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