Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the dark thoughts about the transient nature of life while finding a strange comfort in observing human actions.
Bertrand Russell expresses a somewhat pessimistic view about the inevitability of life coming to an end. However, he finds a peculiar consolation in considering the myriad ways individuals engage with their lives, suggesting that although life may eventually cease, the actions and choices made by people hold meaning and significance in the present.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about existence and the meaning of life.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. _x000D_ Reverence automatically brings forth patience. _x000D_ Reverence permits non-judgemental justice._x000D_ Reverence is a perception of the soul.
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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