Perhaps instead of teaching manners, parents should teach the statistical probability that the person you are speaking to is just as good as you are. It is difficult to believe this; very few of us do, in our instincts, believe it. Ones own ego seems so incomparably more sensitive, more perceptive, wiser and more profound than other peoples. Yet there must be very few of whom this is true, and it is not likely that oneself is one of those few. There is nothing like viewing oneself statistically as a means both to good manners and to good morals. ~Bertrand Russelll On Being Insulting (21 December 1934) Image: Lady Katharine Tait (nee Russell) with father Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:01:53 +0000
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