An idea from On Liberty

Suppose the accepted view is true. If it isn’t challenged, it will be held as a “dead dogma, not a living truth.” People repeat the words without knowing the reasons, and after a while without feeling what the words mean.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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