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The Feeble Minded Are People Who Know The Truth, But Only Affirm It As Consistent With Their Own Interests.
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The feeble minded are people who know the truth, but only affirm it as
consistent with their own interests. Apart from that, they denounce it.
-- Pascal
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The only completely consistent people are the dead. -- Aldous Huxley
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknow...
People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley ['Do What You Will', 1929]...
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and .
.. if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse....
People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others.
The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently....
Jim and Tammy Bakker are the only people I know who are a disgrace to their underwear.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill...
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
-- George Santayana...