 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The important thing is not what you believe but how you believe it [ie, how you arrive at your belief] ... If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based on faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called "education."
Source: Bertrand Russell: Are the World's Troubles Due to Decay of Faith?
In: The Rationalist Annual, 1954 (Watts and Company for the Rationalist Press Association)
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