Truth Quotes

“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one thing may have the substance of another, although it displays absolutely none of its empirical qualities, prepares people for the view that some people are agents of Satan in disguise, which in turn makes it reasonable to destroy them.”
― Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide

“Those who can make you believe absurdities,’ said Voltaire, ‘can make you commit atrocities.’ By contrast, my caution cannot do any such thing.”
― Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed