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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Actions
Belief
Beyond
Even
Every
Experience
Fundamental
Goes
Guide
Little
Most
Our
Reflection
Regarded
Show
Simplest
Us
Will
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Atmosphere
Been
Beliefs
Breathe
Circumstances
Complex
Enables
Forefathers
Formed
Has-Been
Labours
Life
Our
Struggles
Us
Various
Which
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Alive
Every
Fatal
Help
His
Keep
May
Race
Rustic
Sentences
Slow
Superstitions
Village
Which
Who
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Action
After
Believes
Committed
He
Heart
Him
His
Looked
Lust
Truly
Which
Who
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Belief
Deeds
Future
Guidance
Immediately
Open
Realized
Stored
Up
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Any
Badly
Cannot
Dishonest
Doing
Done
Feel
Great
Harm
He
Help
Him
Loss
Make
Man
May
Mere
Money
Myself
Person
Possession
Prevent
Steal
Towards
Transfer
Using
Wrong
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Acts
After
Anything
Be True
Belief
Believe
Done
Evidence
Exhibit
Great
Harm
Insufficient
Like
Manner
May
Mere
Myself
Never
Occasion
Outward
True
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Awful
Belief
Create
Every
Every Man
Fellows
Good
Help
His
Ill
Live
Man
Posterity
Privilege
Responsibility
Should
Speech
Which
Who
Will
World
Woven
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Always
Anyone
Anything
Believe
Everywhere
Evidence
Insufficient
Wrong
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Because
Believe
Believing
Everybody
Far
Good
Grounds
He
Knowing
Knows
Least
Means
Namely
Person
Right
Says
Some
Speaking
Thing
True
Truth
Unless
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Believe
Duty
Escape
Mind
Obscurity
Questioning
Simplicity
Station
Universal
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Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Actions
Belief
Him
Holds
Influence
Nor
Some
Truly
Which
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Been
Conception
Course
Created
General
Guided
Has-Been
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Purposes
Social
Society
Things
Which
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Back
Become
Believe
Credulous
Danger
Enough
Great
Habit
Inquiring
Lose
Merely
Must
Savagery
Should
Sink
Society
Testing
Them
Then
Things
Though
Wrong
Wrong Things
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Beliefs
Character
Confined
Credulity
Credulous
Done
False
Fostering
Harm
Man
Others
Support
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Aggregate
Any
Cases
Conditions
Enough
Guide
Neighbours
Obvious
Our
Rule
Same
Should
Simple
Subject
Testimony
Them
Us
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Came
Create
Did
Discovery
Found
He
Him
His
Made
Musician
Outside
Painter
Picture
Poem
Poet
Ready
Ready-Made
Scientific
Tell
Who
Will
Within
You
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Been
Belief
Best
Earned
Fairly
Founded
Has-Been
Highest
Investigation
Pleasures
Power
Sense
True
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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.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Appeal
Authority
Buddha
Consider
Eastern
Experience
Followers
Individual
Least
Much
Only
Other
Right
Saviour
Social
Support
Witness
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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
About
Anything
Circumstances
Deal
How
Know
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William Kingdon Clifford
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BirthDate
04 May, 1845
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03 March, 1879
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