Russell's concise introduction to philosophy's central problems, written to be understood by anyone. It opens with the question of whether matter exists at all, traces the foundations of perception and induction, and argues that philosophy's greatest value is not answers but the capacity to enlarge the mind toward possibility.
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking 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.
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