 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The man whose desires are limited within the circle of his own experiences will find, as he grows older and his future becomes more circumscribed, that life grows continually narrower and less interesting, until nothing remains but to sit by the fire and keep warm. On the other hand, the man whose desires have a large scope outside his own life may retain to the end the zest of earlier years ; the Platonic Socrates, while he is dying, is as anxious as before to spread what he considers the true philosophy.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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