What Nobelist Russell wrote about immortality, the existence of religion, and the good “

Maria Popova

Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872) is one of mankind's greatest thinkers. There's something almost prophetic about how he builds packaged and useful bridges on important ideas about the modern life of the century ago from how frustration makes happiness possible, to the fact that science is the key to democracy. But nowhere does his genius shine more than in the “work what I believe”.

Published in 1925, the book is a sort of catalogue of hopes ʹ a contradiction of Russell's next book “Icar, a list of fears” published a year ago by exploring our place in the universe and “Ways to have a good life”

Russell writes in the foreword: In human affairs, we can see that there are forces that produce happiness and other tribulations. We do not know which ones will prevail, but to act wisely, we must be aware of both. One of the fundamental points Russell deals with is our civilization's allergic to uncertainty, which we try to facilitate in ways that do not serve the human soul...