There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.


Great Philosophies of the World (ed. 1930)

C. E. M. Joad Quotes

There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness....

There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness....

There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness....

There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness....