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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."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
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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."
"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."
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
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