Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.
Bertrand RussellThe man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
Bertrand RussellWhat Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
Bertrand Russell