The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Weitere Zitate von Bertrand Russell
Zum Autor"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important."
"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
"Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached."