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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

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Duty Mind

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

- William Kingdon Clifford

Experience Right

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

Sense Power

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

Wrong

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

- William Kingdon Clifford

It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

- William Kingdon Clifford

Belief Man World Will

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

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