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Replacing the cult of God by respect and love of humanity, we proclaim human reason as the only criterion of truth; human conscience as the basis of justice; individual and collective freedom as the only source of order in society.
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Ideas, we again repeat that cornerstone of our philosophy, must be consciously based on experimental material, they must be won by induction if we desire to be clear about their meaning and import. And that applies to moral and political ideas no less than to scientific ideas.
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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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I am against all coercive discipline, because so much more can be achieved by reasoning. I believe that one should feel the necessary discipline in one's self.
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The truth cannot be decided by vote; it verifies and imposes itself by the mighty power of its own evidence.
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...we believe that all questions should be settled by reason...
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...it is much to be hoped, that the progress of reason will, by degrees, abate the acrimony of opposite religions...
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There is a desire in each brain to harmonize the knowledge that it has. If a man knows, or thinks he knows, a few facts, he will naturally use those facts for the purpose of determining the accuracy of his opinions on other subjects. This is simply an effort to establish or prove the unknown by the known -- a process that is constantly going on in the minds of all intelligent people.
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The laboring people a few generations ago were not very intellectual. There were no schoolhouses, no teachers except the church, and the church taught obedience and faith -- told the poor people that although they had a hard time here, working for nothing, they would be paid in Paradise with a large interest. Now the working people are more intelligent -- they are better educated -- they read and write. In order to carry on the works of the present, many of them are machinists of the highest order. They must be reasoners.
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The true man, when asked to believe, asks for evidence. The true man, who asks another to believe, offers evidence.
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...there exist no valuable demonstrations except those that are based on facts.
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It is also of the greatest advantage to a search for the true meaning, particularly in the case of laws, to examine the reason for the law, or that cause and consideration which moved the lawgiver to make this law...
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...habit is as certainly the shield of barbarism as logic is the sword of humaneness.
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Men demanded also to feel at home in this brave new world which Columbus, and Copernicus, and Galileo had opened up to them and to recognize it as "controlled, sustained and agitated" by laws in some way akin to those of human reason.
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April 12, 2020 : Reason -- Added.
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