The Great: Bertrand Russell

I learnt that...
The writer showed his 'personal touch' toward his life. I appreciate that he enjoyed living. I would adopt similar perspectives - unable to tolerate sufferings, inequalities, injustice...


Bertrand Russell:
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

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