There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
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He's also an early source of the quotes around
people that tend to be more thoughtful have more
self doubt and those that tend to not be thoughtful
have less self doubt. (which is ironic a lot of the times)
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Makes sense to me, as without thinking and empathizing doubt is unlikely to creep in. Similar to how actual frauds never experience impostor syndrome because they know they are full of *redacted*.
If you happen to have a copy of those quotes, I'd enjoy reading them.
BBC "In Our Times" has lots of philosophers.
Caveats: I don't always love the takes of the guests,
and while I prefer liberal to conservative I still
find liberal implications throughout this show,
one of them being that it is very white and
patriarchal and status quo in the Bell Hooks
sense of "the patriarchy has no gender".
(This is the BBC In Our Times podcast "about" BR):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8fsr
This is a recording of BR himself:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h9lz3/episodes/player
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Unfortunately, the links to the Reith lectures are 404ing for me. I was hoping to hear the words in his voice.
