 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The first thing that philosophy does, or should do, is to enlarge intellectual imagination. Animals, including human beings, view the world from a center consisting of the here and the now. ... Science attempts to escape from this geographical and chronological prison. ... This is done to some extent by the acquisition of any branch of knowledge, but it is done most completely by the sort of general survey that is characteristic of philosophy.... It (= Philosophy) ought to inculcate a realization of human fallibility and of the uncertainty of many things which to the uneducated seem indubitable.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Portraits from Memory, and Other Essays,1956
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