Full Idea
I remain firmly persuaded, in spite of some modern tendencies to the contrary, that only by analysing is progress possible, …for example, by analysing physics and perception, the problem of mind and matter can be completely solved.
Gist of Idea
Only by analysing is progress possible in philosophy
Source
Bertrand Russell (My Philosophical Development [1959], Ch.1)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'My Philosophical Development' [Routledge 1993], p.11
A Reaction
I don't share his confidence in the second part of this, but I subscribe to the maxim that 'analsis is the path to wisdom'. It is a very western view, and lots of people (mostly of a mystical disposition) hate it, but I see no better path.