The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority. — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
