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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

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 is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Greatness, Imagination
Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

Bertrand Russell
Fate, Blow, Greatness
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.132, Lulu Press, Inc

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Bertrand Russell
Greatness, Men, World
Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.19, Psychology Press

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Bertrand Russell
Book, Greatness, Boring
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Greatness, Mind
Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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