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“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”

Men Facts Belief Moral Effects Evidence Favors Good Moral

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.”

Source: Problems of Life and Mind

“Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.”

Should Able Political Belief Decision Party Adults Aspect Originals Favors Liberalism Political Parties Compatible

Book:Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar

Source: Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar

“I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.”

“What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.”

Ifs Way May Seems Would Be Young Belief Atheism Balance Careful Positive Atheism Favors Unhappy Conclusion Odd Thinker Elders Free Thinkers

Book:The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery

Source: The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery