Bertrand Russell on Knowledge

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β€œThere is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
β€œThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
Bertrand Russell
β€œAll definite knowledge β€” so I should contend β€” belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man’s Land is philosophy.”
Bertrand Russell
β€œI hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist – all that is commonly called Science – to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.”
Bertrand Russell