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Charles Roberts Buxton : The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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John Locke : " For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. At least, those who have not thoroughly examined to the bottom all their own tenets, must confess they are unfit to prescribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposing that as truth on other men's belief, which they themselves have not searched into, nor weighed the arguments of probability, on which they should receive or reject it. Those who have fairly and truly examined, and are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess and govern themselves by, would have a juster pretence to require others to follow them: but these are so few in number, and find so little reason to be magisterial in their opinions, that nothing insolent and imperious is to be expected from them: and there is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Sam Harris : " To believe that God exists is to believe that I stand in some relation to his existence such that his existence is itself the reason for my belief. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Robert Wilson : " Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Samuel Johnson : " All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Clive Lewis : " My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Heath Ledger : " You know when you see the preachers down South? And they grab a believer and they go, "Bwoom! I touch you with the hand of God!" And they believe so strongly, they're on the ground shaking and spitting. And fuck's sake, that's the power of belief. Now, I don't believe in Jesus, but I believe in my performance. And if you can understand that the power of belief is one of the great tools of our time and that a lot of acting comes from it, you can do anything. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Thomas Paine : " Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Gary L Francione : " An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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George Bernard Shaw : " The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Orson Scott Card : " Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons. " # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." # Law and Lawyers # Sin # Poverty and The Poor

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " In life, as in chess, forethought wins." # Money # Chess # Winners and Winning

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." # Ancestry # Habit # Dogs

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." # Nature # Arts and Artists # Principles

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." # Evil # Expectation # Purpose

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." # Belief # Critics and Criticism # Argument

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Charles Roberts Buxton: " False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness." # Science and Scientists # Progress # Pleasure

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