Thanks RobinZ,
The full quote is
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise, and everything precise is so remote from everything that we normally think, that you cannot for a moment suppose that is what we really mean when we say what we think.”
Bertrand Russell
Note: phaedrus has provided a citation to “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, noting that this quote is only part of the sentence.
Thanks RobinZ, The full quote is “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise, and everything precise is so remote from everything that we normally think, that you cannot for a moment suppose that is what we really mean when we say what we think.”
But the partial quote is much more crisp.
Oooh, thanks to RobinZ and phaedrus! I hadn’t seen the second part, and didn’t have the citation.