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Bertrand Russell : The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Bertrand Russell : " Since the world is what it is, it is clear that valid reasoning from sound principles cannot lead to error; but a principle may be so nearly true as to deserve theoretical respect, and yet may lead to practical consequences which we feel to be absurd. There is therefore a justification for common sense in philosophy, but only as showing that our theoretical principles cannot be quite correct so long as their consequences are condemned by an appeal to common sense which we feel to be irresistible. The theorist may retort that common sense is no more infallible than logic. But this retort, though made by Berkeley and Hume, would have been wholly foreign to Locke's intellectual temper. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " There are some people, nevertheless — and I am one of them — who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe. ... We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy. We think the question is not whether the theory of the cosmos affects matters, but whether in the long run, anything else affects them. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Edith Hamilton : " Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Ray Bradbury : " Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Voltaire : " The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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William James : " I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Bryan Magee : " As Voltaire once remarked, 'It is the privilege of the real genius, especially one who opens up a new path, to make great mistakes with impunity.' The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. For that reason there has been, ever since, a watershed in understanding between those who have taken his work on board and those who have not. For a good many of the problems he uncovered, the solutions he put forward have not stood the test of time, but his uncovering of the problems remains the most illuminating thing a philosopher has ever done. Because of the fundamental character of these problems, and because Kant did not solve them, confronting them has been the most important challenge to philosophy ever since. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Albert Schweitzer : " Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. We have too long been occupied with the developing series of our own philosophical systems, and have taken no notice of the fact that there is a world-philosophy of which our Western philosophy is only a part. If, however, one conceives philosophy as being a struggle to reach a view of the world as a whole, and seeks out the elementary convictions which are to deepen it and give it a sure foundation, one cannot avoid setting our own thought face to face with that of the Hindus, and of the Chinese in the Far East. ... Our Western philosophy, if judged by its own latest pronouncements, is much naiver than we admit to ourselves, and we fail to perceive this only because we have acquired the art of expressing what is simple in a pedantic way. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Warren Buffett : " Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'? " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Bertrand Russell : " The love of power is a part of human nature, but power-philosophies are, in a certain precise sense, insane. The existence of the external world, both that of matter and of other human beings, is a datum, which may be humiliating to a certain kind of pride, but can only be denied by a madman. Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships in philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships. Certified lunatics are shut up because of the proneness to violence when their pretensions are questioned; the uncertified variety are given control of powerful armies, and can inflict death and disaster upon all sane men within their reach. " # Understanding # Philosophers and Philosophy # Science and Scientists

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Bertrand Russell: " To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." # Death and Dying # Love # Fear

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Bertrand Russell: " The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Doubt # Stupidity

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Bertrand Russell: " If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." # Fools and Foolishness # Age and Aging # Money

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Bertrand Russell: " Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." # Opinions # Eccentricity # Fear

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Bertrand Russell: " Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." # Education # Stupidity # Ignorance

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Bertrand Russell: " I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." # Belief

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Bertrand Russell: " So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." # Gospel # Praise # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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Bertrand Russell: " The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge." # Life and Living # Knowledge # Love

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Bertrand Russell: " One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." # Health # Belief # Work

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Bertrand Russell: " Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do." # Thoughts and Thinking

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