Feel-good untruths (Teale)
March 11th, 2008 | Published in Morality, Truth, Quotes | 1 Comment
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
—Edwin Way Teale, as quoted in Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (Ballantine Books: 1995), p. 12.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am (#)
Yes! I love that book!