"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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Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

William Kingdon Clifford

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The best of a bad bargain.”
“Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”
“You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.”
“And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.”
“life is about making right things and going on..”
“Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.”
“Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.”
“Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.”

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