October 13, 2025

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.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher, mathematician, Sceptical Essays (1928), Jay p.316

In respect of what issues do you demonstrate rational conviction? Do you do so with passion? If so, does that make any difference when it comes to enlisting support for your conviction?

Spoken like a philosopher. But then, “cogito ergo sum” never started a revolution. All right, maybe a philosophic one. *The first principle of the philosophy of Rene Descartes: “I think, therefore I am”