One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations