Unthinkables

Excerpt from Unthinkables

The papers contained in this book are intended, primarily, for the thoughtless; a category, be it observed, by no means consisting wholly of persons who never think. For it is possible to think thoughtlessly; to think loosely; to think illogically; even to think self-contradictorily. And among those who thus think there are some who are, consciously or unconsciously, in search of a Belief in Something, while others are but too anxious to get rid of Belief in Anything. Both crave for dogma; for Belief and Unbelief, mark you, are psychologically identical - the believer holding a certain proposition to be true, the unbeliever holding it to be false. The opposite of Belief is not Unbelief but Doubt.

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