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I Be1ieve,1925 より
Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
「幸福は、いつかは終わらねはならないからといって、その分だけ幸福でなくなるというのではない。又、思想と愛とは、どちらも永遠に続くものではないからといって、その価を失うものではない。」
Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind,1960 より
「問:頭の悪いほうが、楽しみが多くなるといわれたら、どうなさいますか?」
「答:やあ、そんなことはいやですね、どうしても。じっさい、頭がもう少しよくなれるなら、楽しみのほうは減っても構わないくらいです。いや、頭のいいほうがいいです!」
New Hopes for a Changlng World 1951 より
Most people feel more insecure than in fact they are. And the only road to security that they can think of is one that enables them to climb on the shoulders of other people ...
Love is good and cannot be kept alive by being bound in fetters . Jealousy is due to the fear of being unable to retain love, and the cure for this is not to punish those who do not love us, but rather to be lovable.
fetter: 足かせ
The child lives in the minute, the boy in the day, the instinctive man in the year. The man imbued with history lives in the epoch. Spinoza would have us live not in the minute, the day, the year or the epoch, but in eternity.