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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.
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As literature, this doesn't rate high on my list. As slightly amusing history, it was OK. I found some of his early chapters about his youth kind of entertaining. I am always amused by people who call themselves socialists (and yes, I know its a slightly different meaning a hundred years ago), while they live on their trust funds on their uncle Lord so and so's estate. Not that I would turn down that life of leisure if it was presented to me. I'm vastly more jealous than offended. Interesting sn
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An extremely funny book. Can't wait for the next volume!
Great for BR fans. At times hilarious and at others intimate, BR's first-hand observations of those around him are priceless, and his ruminations on religion, philosophy, and mathematics are penetrating and absorbing. In marked contrast, I found some of his letters - especially the love letters - to be tedious and stilted.
B. Russell is a sassy man but most unfortunately a huge portion of this is simply letters. While interesting at first, it became dreadfully dull
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
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“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”
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