Bertrand Russell - Love is wise, hatred is foolish

A Message to Future Generations

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - A Message to Future Generations
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Heinrich von Kleist, On the Puppet Theater

Paradise is locked and bolted and the Cherub is behind us. We must make a journey around the world, to see if a back door has perhaps been left open

Heinrich von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811)

The mind is a strange machine ...

Events only become experiences through the interest we take in them

Bertrand Russell

“The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways, but without material from the external world it is powerless, and (...) must seize its material for itself, since events only become experiences through the interest we take in them; if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them. The man, therefore, whose attention is turned within finds nothing worthy of his notice, whereas the man whose attention is turned outward can find within, in those rare moments when he examines his soul, the most varied and interesting assortment of ingredients being dissected and recombined into beautiful and instructive patterns."

from: Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930

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