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Attempt Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is…
- Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
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