"My most profound feelings have remained always solitary and have found in human things no companionship ... The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best, and I am conscious that human affection is to me at bottom an attempt to escape from the vain search for God"
St. Augustine
Bertrand Russell
C.S. Lewis
Soren Kierkegaard
Adolf Hitler
Martin Buber
2006-10-29 10:24:38 · 9 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bertrand Russell
2006-10-29 10:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, 9th March in English & Philosophy
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
“The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending. I live and have my day, my son succeeds me and has his day, his son in turn succeeds him. What is there in all this to make a tragedy about?”
“My most profound feelings have remained always solitary and have found in human things no companionship…. The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best, and I am conscious that human affection is to me at bottom an attempt to escape from the vain search for God.”
2006-10-29 10:29:08 · answer #2 · answered by Furibundus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord Bertrand Russell, the Satanic Malthusian
2006-10-29 10:52:29 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It most definitely was NOT C.S. Lewis, LOL...
It was Bertrand Russell...who should have been on anti-depressants...
Amazing how much harm bad parenting can actually cause...somethilng to keep in mind if you have kids....
2006-10-29 11:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know who half those people are, so I'm going to say it *wasn't* Augistine or CS Lewis.
2006-10-29 10:27:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not positive but i think it was c.s. lewis
2006-10-29 10:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by mrs. awesome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C.S.Lewis I'm almost certain.
2006-10-29 10:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea.
2006-10-29 10:31:09 · answer #8 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some asshole.
2006-10-29 10:26:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋