Search for Truth
Search for Truth
~ 13 ~
kind of negligence or apathy in this regard, there is
no excuse, whatever the circumstances.
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is the only discipline which, by its own
definition, embodies the quest for knowledge and
understanding of the nature and meaning of the
universe as well as of human life.
But after a long search of more than 5000 years, to
which the greatest minds of human history have
been bent, it has failed to provide any definite
answer to such questions.
Bertrand Russell was a great thinker of the present
world, whose life spanned almost a century. He
spent almost his entire life in reading and writing
on philosophical subjects. But he failed to evolve
any credible ideology. Because of this failure, one of
his commentators remarks that “he was a
philosopher of no philosophy.” This is true not only
of Bertrand Russell, but also of all other
philosophers. Individually or jointly, they have
failed to produce any philosophical system which
