Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“The free intellect will see as God might see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of customary beliefs and traditional prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the sole and exclusive desire of knowledge—knowledge as impersonal, as purely contemplative, as it is possible for man to attain.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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