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“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.”

Belief Common Stupid Prejudice Philosopher Practicals Common Sense Contests Sydney Conducting Illusory Sagacity

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.”

Ifs Belief Opinion Practice Pure Determination Practicals Propositions Metaphysical Chatter Jargon

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.”

Men Two God Belief Islam Practicals Oneness Contribution Application Brotherhood Folds Distinctive Brotherhood Of Man

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.”

Should Believe Belief Consequence Practicals Chosen Being True Irrational Avoided Unjustified

Author:Mario Bunge

“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.”

Has Beens Different Real Facts Faces Belief Results Opinion Effects Particular Ought Tests Fruit Arguing Practicals Heroic Uniforms Appearing Soundness

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

“The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.”

Men World Should Kind Two Problem Purpose Belief Taken He Man Tools Relation Regard Instruments Series Raised Practicals Symbols Data Dogma Hypothesis Convenience Two Worlds Practical Life

Author:Aldous Huxley