If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
Bertrand RussellWith equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Bertrand RussellWhat will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand RussellTelevison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
Bertrand RussellI should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
Bertrand Russell