The Essence Of Belief Is

When Anything Is Present To The Mind, What Is The Very First And Simplest Character To Be Noted In It, In Every Case, No Matter How Little Elevated The Object May Be? Certainly, It Is Its Presentness .

There Is Not A Single Truth Of Science Upon Which We Ought To Bet More Than About A Million Of Millions To One.

Whenever A Man Acts Purposively, He Acts Under A Belief In Some Experimental Phenomenon. Consequently, The Sum Of The Experimental Phenomena That A Proposition Implies Makes Up Its Entire Bearing Upon Human Conduct.

If Liberty Of Speech Is To Be Untrammeled From The Grosser Forms Of Constraint, The Uniformity Of Opinion Will Be Secured By A Moral Terrorism To Which The Respectability Of Society Will Give Its Thorough Approval.

The A Priori Method Is Distinguished For Its Comfortable Conclusions. It Is The Nature Of The Process To Adopt Whatever Belief Weare Inclined To, And There Are Certain Flatteries To The Vanity Of Man Which We All Believe By Nature, Until We Are Awakened From Our Pleasing Dream By Rough Facts.