Quote by Bertrand Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as no

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and Ill tell you their philosophy of life. – Dale Carnegie

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What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. – Epictetus, Discourses

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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

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