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Quotation from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
“questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”
The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text)
Closing the first chapter, Russell says that philosophy, if it cannot answer as many questions as we wish, can at least ask these.
Citation: "questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life." — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text). (id russell-problems-of-philosophy-q3)
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