When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying thing that life has to offer. 'If that is possible,' we say to ourselves, 'then everything is possible'; a new phase in the history of human awareness has been opened up, just as it opened up when people first read Dante, or first heard Bach's 48 preludes and fugues, or first learned from Hamlet and King Lear(/I> that the complexities and contradictions of human nature could be spelled out on the stage. This being so, it is a great exasperation to come face to face with new art and not make anything of it. Stared down by something that we don't like, don't understand and can't believe in, we feel personally affronted, as if our identity as reasonably alert and responsive human beings had been called into question. We ought to be having a good time, and we aren't. More than that, an important part of life is being withheld from us; for if any one thing is certain in this world it is that art is there to help us live, and for no other reason.
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RUSSELL BAKER Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and f... BERTRAND RUSSELL Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the si... BERTRAND RUSSELL Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know. BERTRAND RUSSELL In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as... BERTRAND RUSSELL Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for examp... BERTRAND RUSSELL Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far b... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. UTTERLY RUSSELL The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token... RUSSELL LYNES A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. BERTRAND RUSSELL Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. BERTRAND RUSSELL Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privileg... BERTRAND RUSSELL The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the di... AARON RUSSELL A couple injuries and sickness prevented the women's team from getting off to a better start. If we ... AARON RUSSELL We believe he was using jumper cables to start his tractor when the accident occurred. AARON RUSSELL Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grav... AARON RUSSELL With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud w... BERTRAND RUSSELL I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the ... BERTRAND RUSSELL The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war co... NIPSEY RUSSELL To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely... BERTRAND RUSSELL Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap... BERTRAND RUSSELL If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha... BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem... BERTRAND RUSSELL If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun... BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine... BERTRAND RUSSELL What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l... DORA RUSSELL Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure... BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge. BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev... BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p... BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate... BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL