तत्त्वज्ञान विभाग संगमनेर महाविद्यालय संगमनेर

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 

3rd Earl Russell

(18 May 1872 – 02 February 1970)

 British philosopher, mathematician, logician, historian, and social critic. 

 At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist. 

       The Value of Philosophy 

        "If we are not to fail in our endeavour to determine the value of philosophy, we must first free our minds from the prejudices of what are wrongly called 'practical' men. The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind. If all men were well off, if poverty and disease had been reduced to their lowest possible point, there would still remain much to be done to produce a valuable society; and even in the existing world the goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body. It is exclusively among the goods of the mind that the value of philosophy is to be found; and only those who are not indifferent to these goods can be persuaded that the study of philosophy is not a waste of time." 

                                                  Bertrand Russell in " Problems Of Philosophy" 

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