What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, w…

Bertrand Russell
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ✨ Sceptical Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.
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