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Philosophers on
Philosophy
Socrates
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a
disturber of the peace." Baruch Spinoza "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;
because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich
our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes
the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of
the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered
great..." Bertrand Russell "Philosophy is the eternal search
for truth, a search which inevitably fails and yet is never defeated; which
continually eludes us, but which always guides us. This free, intellectual
life of the mind is the noblest inheritance of the Western world; it is also
the hope of our future." W.T. Jones |
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