Message To Future Generations | Bertrand Russell (1959)The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.
Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Credit: Bertrand Russell
Comment: Bertrand Russell observes that strongly held passionate opinions, especially regarding politicized or religious matters, are often lacking in rational justification or evidence. The intensity of feeling behind such beliefs paradoxically signals the lack of sound reasoning supporting them.
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Quotations: Bertrand Russell (7)
- Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Critical Thinking Bertrand Russell
- Fools’ Certainty Bertrand Russell
- I Do Not Pretend to Start with Precise Questions Bertrand Russell
- If Everything Must Have a Cause, Then God Must Have a Cause Bertrand Russell (1927)
- It Has Been Said That Man Is a Rational Animal Bertrand Russell
- The Fundamental Cause of Trouble in the World Bertrand Russell
- What Men Really Want Is Not Knowledge but Certainty Bertrand Russell
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