The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading
Bertrand Russell... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Bertrand RussellI have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.
Bertrand RussellMankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
Bertrand Russell