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William Kingdon Clifford Quotes: All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
         

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.


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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.



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.

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.



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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.



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.

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.



No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.



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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.



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.

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.



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.

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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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.





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