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Bertrand Russell on Knowledge

1872–1970

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6 quotes

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

The Analysis of Mind (1921)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

What I Believe (1925)

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)

All definite knowledge — so I should contend — belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man’s Land is philosophy.

I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist – all that is commonly called Science – to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bertrand Russell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.