 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Apart from the attempt to understand the world, philosophy has other functions to fulfill. It can enlarge the imagination by the construction of a cosmic epic, or it can suggest a way of life less wayward and accidental than that of the unreflective. A philosopher who attempts either of these tasks must be judged by a standard of values, aesthetic or ethical, rather than by intellectual correctness.
Source: The Philosophy of Santayana, 1940.
In: The Philosophy of George Santayana, ed. by P. A. Schilpp(Evanston & Chicago, Northwestern Univ., 1940), p.453-474.
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