Bertrand Russell on Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1988), p. 161.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers
to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to
be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because
these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our
intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which
closes through the greatness of the universe which philosophy
contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of
that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
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