 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
We all think electricity is entirely governed by natural laws, and yet we think it is rational to put up lightning conductors. Well, I should say that an ethic is, as it were, a lightning conductor for human passions, to enable them within a deterministic world to work in a way that pro duces a minimum of disaster.
Source: Spinoza's Ethics, ; dialogue with Scott Buchanan and Mark Van Doren.
* CBS program: 'Invitation to Learning.
In: New Invitation to Learning(New York, Random House, 1942),
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