One Big Moment
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutеly vital to the continuation of human life on this planet
(Bеrtrand Russell)
A ghost? A discorporate human personality that has survived bodily death? Well, I have to admit that I have never seen a ghost so my empirical evidence is zero, but what I have seen…is the opposite – a body that has outlasted the existence of the personality and that is far, far more horrifying than any spook or ghoul you could ever hope to glimpse, believe me
(John Hurt in BBC Drama "Whistle and I’ll Come to You", based on the short story by M.R. James)
Everything sane and sensible and quiet that we do is absolutely ignored by the press. ... I can't bare the thought of many hundreds of millions of people dying in agony only and solely because the rulers of the world are stupid and wicked -- and I can't bear it!
(Bertrand Russell)
Fourteen billion years ago there was nothing. No stars, no galaxies, no planets or people… then suddenly, without warning, everything exploded into existence. The Universe was born!
(From BBC Horizon Season 46, Episode 15, "Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?")