 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
We are supposed to wish to live for ever and to look forward to the unending joys of heaven, of which, by miracle, the monotony will never grow stale. But in fact, if you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a 'new boy' in another. For the future, therefore, it may be taken that much the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind，1946
Reprinted in: Unpopular Essays, 1950
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