The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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And who do you believe?I don't believe anyone.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others..
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The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.
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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
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Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
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If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.
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Scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill
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.. Skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both. I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me; for, unless I am more deceived in myself than I often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I must study the plain, physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible and learn what appears to be wise and right.
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Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue.. Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics and of physiology, say that ESP is not a fact despite the behavioral evidence that has been reported. I cannot see what other basis my colleagues have for rejecting it.. Rhine may still turn out to be right, improbable as I think that is, and my own rejection of his view is - in the literal sense - prejudice.
Believers in psychic phenomena.. Appear to have won a decisive victory and virtually silenced opposition.. This victory is the result of careful experimentation and intelligent argumentation. Dozens of experimenters have obtained positive results in ESP experiments, and the mathematical procedures have been approved by leading statisticians.. Against all this evidence, almost the only defense remaining to the skeptical scientist is ignorance.
A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
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The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existencethe gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Re-examine all that you have been told.
I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.
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I perceive that it is far more practical to begin at the beginning and discuss theories. I see that the men who killed each other about the orthodoxy of the Homoousion were far more sensible than the people who are quarrelling about the Education Act. For the Christian dogmatists were trying to establish a reign of holiness, and trying to get defined, first of all, what was really holy. But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty. If the old priests forced a statement on mankind, at least they previously took some trouble to make it lucid. It has been left for the modern mobs of Anglicans and Nonconformists to persecute for a doctrine without even stating it.
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In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
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