“ Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things. ”
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1910). copy citation
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
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| Source | Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays |
| Topic | wisdom thoughts |
| Date | 1910 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25447/25447-h/25447-h.htm |
Context
“but only a mystic would have said:
"Every beast is driven to the pasture with blows"; and again:
"It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul"; and again:
"Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things." [1]
Examples might be multiplied, but those that have been given are enough to show the character of the man: the facts of science, as they appeared to him, fed the [4] flame in his soul, and in its light he saw into the depths of the world by the reflection of his own dancing swiftly penetrating fire.”
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