Through the spectacle of death I acquired a new love for what is living. I became convinced that most human beings are possessed by a profound unhappiness venting itself in destructive rages, and that only through the diffusion of instinctive joy can a good world be brought into being.
Source:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968
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