speculation quotes

Buyan annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. 268

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^4  Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.18.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.12, l.588^9.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answerscan, asa rule, be knowntobetrue, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  The Problems of Philosophy, ch.14.