It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
Bertrand RussellEmphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
Bertrand RussellOnly in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
Bertrand RussellBrief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Bertrand Russell