Thursday, December 20, 2018

not even mine

6m25s BR: Oh, I got to Cambridge when I was 18 and that, of course, was a new world to me. I for the first time met people who, when I said anything that I really thought, didn't think it absurd. I had learnt at home to say almost nothing about what I really thought. My people had a horror of philosophy which interested me. And they would say every time philosophy was mentioned: "Philosophy is summed up completely in these two questions: What is better? Never mind. What is mind? No matter."
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26m13s BR: Oh, well, as to that. You see, I think one of the troubles of the world has been the habit of dogmatically believing something or other. And I think all these matters are full of doubt and the rational man will not be too sure that he's right. I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy not even mine, not even mine.

- Full transcript of video interview with Bertrand Russell [PDF]
Bertrand Russel [youtube]

not even mine my ass

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