Complete Philosophical Writings of Bertrand Russell Quotes

“Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions that cause most trouble in philosophy—the distinction between 'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they are.”
― Bertrand Russell, Complete Philosophical Writings of Bertrand Russell: Including The Problems of Philosophy, Mysticism and Logic, and Principles of Social Reconstruction

“Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.”
― Bertrand Russell, Complete Philosophical Writings of Bertrand Russell: Including The Problems of Philosophy, Mysticism and Logic, and Principles of Social Reconstruction