"Some people are able to avoid despair ( of living in this world filled with misery) by living a purely personal life, deriving their happiness entirely from private affections and instincts. Mere living, by itself is not an adequate purpose for any reflective person. What is the use of caring for childeren, if the world is to be such that existence is intolerable for them?"
"If there is any way out of despair, it must be by remembering more things not less, by enlarging our horizon, not by narrowing it, by being more aware of what is good, not by shutting our eyes to what is bad."
"In the non-human world, there are the stars, and the sea and the wind in the trees, summer rain and song of birds in spring. It is necessary to remember that the human race, with all its tumults, is only a part, and a small part of the whole universe."
"Every one agrees that we should not be self centered, relating everthing that happens to ourselves, making ourselves the center of the universe. But it is also, to a lesser extent, a defect of imagination to make mankind centre of the universe, or to attempt measure eternity with a clock."
"The human nature is a strange mixture of divine and diabolic, both equally real making both good and bad equally inevitable."
The entire article is here
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=russelljournal
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