“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at, because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

“I believe the only difference between science and philosophy is that science is
what you more or less know and philosophy is what you do not know. (...) to many
of the people who like philosophy, the charm of it consists in the speculative
freedom, in the fact that you can play with hypotheses. (...) Just as there are families
in America who from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers onward had always migrated
westward, toward the backwoods, because they did not like civilized life, so the
philosopher has an adventurous disposition and likes to dwell in the region where
there are still uncertainties.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism