Writer’s Moment: Passion and Rational Conviction

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

– Bertrand Russell in the introduction to “Sceptical Essays” (1961).

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