 | William E. Phipps - Religion - 1993 - 268 pages
...version of Jesus' love principle. This confession opens his autobiography, written in his tenth decade: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." 97 Elsewhere he summed up his ethics in this way: "The good life is one inspired by love and guided... | |
 | John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, David Ellis - Authors, English - 1991 - 1034 pages
...Autobiography, also charging that DHL had been a mouthpiece for his wife's ideas. The Autobiography begins: 'Three passions, simple, but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind' (i. 20-4). It is clear enough that the motivation of his account of DHL was more concerned to jab and... | |
 | Pat Duffy Hutcheon - Social Science - 1996 - 521 pages
...do no better than to use the words of the writer himself. "Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search...for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like strong winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish ...... | |
 | Colin McGinn - Philosophy - 1997 - 273 pages
...human life never fundamentally changed. In the prologue to his Autobiography Russell tells us that "three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." In each of these it may be said that he experienced failure and disillusion. His emotional life was... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophers - 1998 - 768 pages
...letter from the British Consul In Florence speaks for itself: 1872—1914 Prologue What I have Lived for Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,...of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy — ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed... | |
 | John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, David Ellis - Authors, English - 1991 - 1034 pages
...Autobiography, also charging that DI{L had been a mouthpiece for his wife's ideas. The Autobiography begins: ‘Three passions, simple, but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind' (i. 20-4). It is clear enough that the motivation of his account of DHL was more concerned to jab and... | |
 | John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, David Ellis - Authors, English - 1991 - 1034 pages
...Autobiography, also charging that DHL had been a mouthpiece for his wife's ideas. The Autobiography begins: ‘Three passions, simple, but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind' (i. 20—4). It is clear enough that the motivation of his account of DHL was more concerned to jab... | |
 | Mark Kinkead-Weekes - Literary Criticism - 2011 - 1030 pages
...Autobiography, also charging that DHL had been a mouthpiece for his wife's ideas. The Autobiography begins: aE% as a ~$ important (i. 20-4). It is clear enough that the motivation of his account of DHL was more concerned to jab and... | |
 | John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, David Ellis - Authors, English - 1991 - 1034 pages
...Autobiography, also charging that DIlL had been a mouthpiece for his wife's ideas. The Autobiography begins: ‘Three passions, simple, but overwhelmingly strong,...and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind' (i. 20—4). It is clear enough that the motivation of his account of DIlL was more concerned to jab... | |
 | Helen Granat - Quotations - 1998 - 182 pages
...supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go. BONARO W. OVERSTREET Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have...the longing for love, the search for knowledge and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. BERTRAND RUSSELL The greatest use of life is to spend... | |
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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... 
