Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present [...]
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Men cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply affect their lives, not least when they are unconscious; much of the misery and frustration of men is due to the mechanical and unconscious, as well as deliberate, application of models where they [...]
From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing that something fundamental was wrong in this country — not just the existence of poverty amidst wealth, not just the horrible treatment of black people, but something rotten at the root. [...]
In order to express an idea one must be able to communicate it, define it… So when the word belief is misused and confused in a conversation it can make things very difficult.
Tagged epistemology, faith, philosophy of religion
