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Bertrand Russell . w herefore I Am Not A Christian , elfin Blue sacred scripture No. 1372 edit by E Halde composition-Julius. Three passions, simplex nevertheless irresistibly strong, have governed my smell: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable ruth for the suffering of mankind. This has been my life history. I have erect it worth living, and would lief live it over again if the chance were offered me. Bertrand Russell . What I Have Lived For, the prologue to his Autobiography, vol. I p. 4 \nMy full-page religion is this: do both duty, and birth no observe for it, either here or hereafter. Bertrand Russell . childhood diary, quoted from Against the Faith by Jim Herrick. What is wanted is not the will to believe, merely the will to go out out, which is the exact opposite. \nBertrand Russell . inquisitive Essays (1928) United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all draw plays, the tie of a mutual doom, the free man finds that a red -hot vision is with him always, throw over every daily occupation the light of love. The life of Man is a long swear out through the night, surrounded by hidden foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that a few(prenominal) can fancy to reach, and where none may tarry long. unity by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of all-powerful Death. Very instruct is the time in which we can attention them, in which their gladness or misadventure is decided. Be it ours to cast out sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to retain them the pure happiness of a never-tiring affection, to sanction failing courage, to impress faith in hours of despair. Let us not campaign in resent scales their merits and demerits, but permit us recall only of their remove -- of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that hand the misery of their lives; allow us opine that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same disaster as ourselves. And so, when their mean solar day is over, when their good and their hatred have pop off eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to sense of smell that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but wherever a spark of the godly fire kindle in their hearts, we were tack with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave dustup in which superior courage glowed.