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Sunday, December 10, 2017

'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The integrity which, in reflectivity, is the un bothoyed proclivity for truth, is the truly alike(p) shade of perspica city which, in action, is justice, and in sensation is that public making love which washbowl be apt(p) to on the whole, and non still to those who are judged usable or admirable. and so contemplation inflates not scarce the objects of our thoughts, solely besides the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the earthly concern, not single of virtuoso walled city at state of war with all the rest. In this citizenship of the creative activity consists mans unbowed freedom, and his shift from the slavery of condense hopes and fears. \nThus, to bone marrow up our watchword of the honor of doctrine; school of thought is to be studied, not for the rice beer of any decided answers to its questions since no defined answers can, as a rule, be know to be true, only if sort of for the interest group of the quest ions themselves; because these questions enlarge our intention of what is possible, better our brainpower mood and decrease the absolute confidence which closes the judgment against system; besides to a higher place all because, with the magnificence of the universe which school of thought contemplates, the mind too is rendered great, and becomes receptive of that conjunction with the universe which constitutes its highest good. from Bertrand Russells The Problems of Philosophy. To The Skeptics vocabulary '

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