“Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.” Bertrand Russell’s 10 rules for thinking clearly, from 1951
In 1951, Bertrand Russell closed an essay on liberalism and fanaticism with what he called a “Liberal Decalogue” — ten rules for honest thinkers, not to replace the original commandments but to supplement them. Writing in The New York Times Magazine, he argued that liberalism was not a creed but a temperament, one built on t…
