Quote For The Day

"Faith in reason is not only faith in our own reason but also -- and
even more -- in that of others.

Thus a rationalist, even if he believeshimself to be intellectually superior to others, will reject all claimsto authority since he is aware that, if his intelligence is superior tothat of others (which is hard for him to judge), it is so only in sofar as he is capable of learning from criticism as well as from his ownand other people's mistakes, and that one can learn in this sense onlyif ...