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: ...reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired...
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When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others — not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others. The emphasis here is on the idea of criticism or, to be more precise, critical discussion. The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
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The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.
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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the
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Jose Ortega y Gasset :
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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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Robert H Jackson :
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Under these circumstances, except for any personal humiliation involved in admitting that I do not always understand the opinions of this Court, I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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