Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy

Quotes

• “William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the...”
• “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that p...”
• “Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved i...”
• “The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”