 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I am told over and over again that I over-estimate the part of reason in human affairs. This may mean that I think either that people are, or that they ought to be, more rational than my critics believe them to be. But I think there is a prior error on the part of my critics, which is that they, not I, irrationally over-estimate the part which reason is capable of playing, and this comes I think from the fact that they are in complete confusion as to what the word "reason’’ means.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), preface.
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