"By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence."

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Source : Anthony Collins (1713). “A Discourse of Free-thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-thinkers ...”, p.10

Anthony Collins

#Mean Quotes #Judging Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love.”
“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”
“We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way that is totally nebulous and abstracted, this way of thinking about reality. And that's why I write the way I do - it's an almost immortal way to show dependence on the biological, the political, the moral parts of us. I say immortal because we now have to find new formats, new eloquences, and resolve within ourselves this "constructed" life, a life that is incomplete, imperfect.”

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“Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.”
“I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.”
“When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.”
“I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.”
“Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.”

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