"The Problems of Philosophy" Quotes
"The Problems of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell explores fundamental questions about knowledge, reality, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
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Quotes
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty.
The world of fact is not the same as the world of appearance.
Our knowledge, being finite, cannot be complete; and the universe being infinite, it follows that what we know is a negligible fraction of all that there is.
Philosophy aims at knowledge, but must begin with ignorance.
The study of the problems of philosophy is not a study of concrete facts, but of the fundamental concepts and reasoning underlying our knowledge.
Certainty is a state of mind, not a property of the world.
The essence of philosophy is the systematic questioning of received ideas.
The knowledge acquired by philosophy is not knowledge which can be put to any direct practical use.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.
