The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand RussellMorally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
Bertrand RussellOur individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
Bertrand Russell