Christopher Cunningham > Christopher's Quotes

“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.”
― Joan Aiken

“...Contemplation enlarges not only the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war will all the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thraldom of narrow hopes and fears.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“All definite knowledge -- so I should contend -- belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is No Man's Land, exposed to attack from both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy