Bertrand russell autobiography preface sample

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February 16, History. An edition of Autobiography Autobiography Edit. Publish Date. People Bertrand Russell Places England. Edition Availability 1. Autobiography , Routledge. Preview Only. The autobiography of Bertrand Russell. Borrow Listen. Book Details Table of Contents Acknowledgements. Later Years of Telegraph House. W hat I have Lived For Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand russell autobiography preface sample

These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have scrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that the saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and thought it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found.