Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.