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What I Have Lived For

　　Bertrand Russell

　　Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for

love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These

passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a

deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.

　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would

have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next,

because it relieves loneliness --- that terrible loneliness in Women Jordan 6 Mixed Air Force One which one shivering

consciousness looks over the rim of the world into cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have

sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the

prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought,

and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what --- at last --- I have found.

　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of

men, I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the

Pythagorean power by which number holds away above the Women Jordan 8 Mixed Air Force One flux. A little of this, but not much,

I have achieved.

　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But

always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart.

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to

their sons, and the whole world of Jordans  shoe loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what

human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

　　This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if

the chance were offered to me.