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"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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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
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"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
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"Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins, only He can convince them of the truth of the Gospel."
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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."
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"If you don't want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus."
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"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
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"The truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)"
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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
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"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."
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"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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"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."
Belief
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
Belief
"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
"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."
Truth
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
Society
"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."
Experience
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
Common sense
"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."
Discovery
"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
Belief
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