Bertrand Russell Quotes about Imagination

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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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Science, Imagination

Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Bertrand Russell

Stupid, Ignorance, Imagination

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.676, Routledge

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Ideas, Imagination, Religion

"Why I Am Not a Christian". "The First-cause Argument". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1927.

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

Bertrand Russell

Taken, Imagination, Alternatives

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.6, Routledge

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

Bertrand Russell

Men, Imagination, Progress

Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.23, Routledge

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Effort, Desire

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Political Ideals”, p.16, Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Heaven, Purpose

Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.144, Lulu Press, Inc

Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Joy, World

Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.139, Routledge

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Poverty, Logic

"Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

Bertrand Russell Quotes about Imagination

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