 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
＜ The best way to overcome death ＞
... An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being..
Source: Bertrand Russell: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956.
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