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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

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Frances Wright
Age: 57 †
Born: 1795
Born: September 6
Died: 1852
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Writer
City of Dundee
Frances D'Arusmont
Atheism
Instead
Imagination
Ascertaining
Facts
Overthrow
Establishing
Imaginations
Chase
Errors

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Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
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Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!
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... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
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The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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No man can see his own prejudices.
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It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!
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the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?
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... a nation to be strong, must be united to be united, must be equal in condition to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
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Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.
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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool and of many a good man, a knave.
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