It is difficult to think that men could imprison or even kill their fellow men for doctrinal differences with a free conscience if they understood clearly that, in doing so, they were acting simply on their own fallible opinionsKwasi Wiredu
A rational man is (in the ideal) one who apportions his belief to the evidence and orders his conduct according to warranted beliefKwasi Wiredu
If a man is able clearly to understand that his political or religious creed is merely a matter of his own personal opinion and not the result of a revelation of any ‘Objective’, Immutable Truth, he might then hesitate to consign a fellow man to perdition simply for being unable to conformKwasi Wiredu
I take it as a presupposition of any rational discussion that no one person or group of persons has exclusive possession of the truthKwasi Wiredu
The ideal way to reform backward customs in Africa must, surely, be to undermine their foundations in superstition by fostering in the people – at all events, in the new generation of educated Africans – the spirit of rational enquiry…Kwasi Wiredu
To develop in any serious sense, we in Africa must break with our old uncritical habits of thought; that is to say, we must advance past the stage of traditional thinkingKwasi Wiredu
It is true that African nations spend every year huge sums of money on institutional education. But it has not been appreciated that education ought to lead to the cultivation of a rational outlook on the world…Kwasi Wiredu
We are living in a transitional epoch in which our actions and habits of mind are governed, frequently unconsciously, by inherited traditional conceptions in combination with ideas and attitudes coming to us from foreign landsKwasi Wiredu
Nothing is apparently more difficult than to change habits of thought hardened for us into customs by the long-standing practice of our forefathersKwasi Wiredu
