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It is the conduct of children to accept truth only if it comforts them and to reject it when it disheartens them; to seek it when pleasant but to shun it when disagreeable. It is the conduct of adults to seek it for its own sake, whatever its effect upon their personal emotions may be.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5 : The Philosopher > # 257