I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine…

Bertrand Russell
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. ✨ Sceptical Essays (1928) On the Value of Scepticism
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