It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the fac…

Walter Lippmann
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It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. ✨ Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). Drift and Mastery: … ▶
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface To Morals, p.137, Transaction Publishers
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. ✨ Walter Lippmann (20 … ▶
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface To Morals, p.328, Transaction Publishers

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

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