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.
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey. - William Kingdon Clifford
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
- William Kingdon Clifford
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. - William Kingdon Clifford
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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 … - William Kingdon Clifford
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 …
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 t… - William Kingdon Clifford
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 t…
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog h… - William Kingdon Clifford
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog h…
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land. - William Kingdon Clifford
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in… - William Kingdon Clifford
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in…
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 … - William Kingdon Clifford
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 …
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano. - William Kingdon Clifford
An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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