Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics.... - Bertrand Russell
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."