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.

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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that...

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that...

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental...

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be...

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the...

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the...

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English...

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English...

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

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

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has...

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has...

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the...

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the...

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell...

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell...

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of...

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of...

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all...

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all...

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to...

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to...

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on...

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on...

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon...

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon...

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental,...

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental,...

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has...

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has...

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless...

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless...

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to...

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to...

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon...

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon...