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“The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

“The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.”

Source: Superstition and Other Essays

“I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.”

Ifs World Believe Persons Whole Fall I Believe Essentials Diversity Gains Unity I Believe In Whole World Unity In Diversity

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.”

Thinking Giving Believe Mean Reason Use Given Information Gains Atheist Senses Abandon

Book:Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day

Source: Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day

“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.”

People Way Believe Liberty Democracy Gains Slave Libertarian Best Way Libertarianism Ruling Democracies Have Submissive Libertarian Party

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.”

“Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.”

Knows World Giving Believe Philosophy Turns Language Views Clear Depends Gains Accounts Philosophical Structure Mediums Discovering Our Thoughts Turn-on Systematic Explicit Clear View

Author:Michael Dummett