Will be of value as a thinker, and I am pretty well certain he will not attain happiness.'' In the second volume of his prodigiously researched and brilliantly narrated biography, ''Bertrand Russell: ''A fallen angel with Mephistophelean wit,'' remarked Beatrice Webb, founder of the London School of Economics, adding, ''He may be successful as a littérateur I doubt whether he ''A fervid egoist,'' Virginia Woolf noted dryly in her diary in 1921, shortly before Russell's 50th birthday - the halfway mark of what would be a remarkably long life. Some of his best friends saw him in a less flattering light. Mathematica'' and champion of free love and world peace explained his multiple marriages and affairs, towering intellectual achievements and numerous public honors, including a Nobel. ''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.'' Thus the author of ''Principia 3, 1970)Įrtrand Russell, who was among the 20th century's most influential philosophers and public intellectuals, began his autobiography by declaring, Bertrand Russell Is Dead British Philosopher, 97 (Feb.A biographer suggests that Bertrand Russell's shortcomings doomed those closest to him.
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