"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do fo...

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.
~ Bertrand Russell ~












The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted...
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