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.
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.
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.
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…
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 scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. - William Kingdon Clifford
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
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 …
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