From Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography: What I Have Lived For. Part I.
----‘Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind...
Love brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy... in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge… ’ -----