"To teach how to live without certainty,and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
History of western philosophy , Bertrand Russell
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Storia della filosofia occidentale e dei suoi rapporti con le vicende politiche e sociali dall'antichità a oggi | 
"To teach how to live without certainty,and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
History of western philosophy , Bertrand Russell
You know it's an old edition when it says...
pickFinally finished this beast! Sooo long and I definitely think I drifted away in the middle and understand the material after Descartes much less than the stuff before, but who genuinely understands Hegel anyway?
I‘m starting off my #25infive readathon challenge with my usual audiobook listening at work - I‘m spending most of today putting letters in envelopes so having some philosophy to keep me awake and help me feel like I‘m learning something is essential! About four hours of listening at work, then back to The Stolen Bicycle for the booker long list after my evening class!
Making slow but steady progress on this monster of a book! I‘m really enjoying it and love the voice artist who‘s doing it. It makes me feel like I ought to read something on Muslim or middle eastern philosophy to balance out how European-centric this is - I know the clue is in the title that it‘s very western but I wanna find something to help my knowledge be more balanced
Really enjoying this classic, even if it is a bit outdated 😌
"I saw eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres
Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world
And all her train were hurled."
"You cannot step twice into the same river; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you."
