Reading throughout their lives, people devote themselves to the pursuit of different passions. The adapted excerpt and the article below are about bertrand Russell lifelong passions. Before you read the adapted excerpt and the article, think about the following questions. Do you know any people with lifelong g passions? impressive. you. What are their passions? What do you know about bertrand Russell? What I have lived for, 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. These passions, like great winds, have blown me, in a way, wood course over a great ocean of vanguard h, reaching to the very edge of, despite I have sought love first, because IT brings delight, delight so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought IT next, because IT relieves loneliness, that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the room of the world into the cold, lifeless ss abyss. I have sought IT finally, because in the union of love, I have seen the vision of the glorious world that says, and poets have imagined, this is what I thought, and though that might seem too good for human life, this is what at last I have found with equal passion. I have so knowledge I have wished to understand, the heart of men I have wish to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to understand the pic, gary and power, by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much. I have achieved love and knowledge so far as they were possible, upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Cries of pain echo in my heart. Children in family, mine victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people are burden to their sons. And the whole world of loneliness, poverty and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to defeat this evil, but I cannot and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found IT worth living and would gladly live IT again if the charms were offered me. Bertrand Russell, the pursuit of his passions, british philosopher, mathematician and riter bertrand russe, eighteen seventy two to nineteen seventy has had a major influence on western philosophy. His works, beautifully written in with clarity of thought. I generally regarded as modern classics. In the project to his autobiography, entitled what I have lived for, Russell identifies the three patients that have given his life the longing for love, the search for knowledge and pity for the suffering of mankind. Russell regarded these patients worthy beliefs and pursued them all his life. Russell s. First passion, the longing for love, played a powerful motivating role in his life. To Russell, love is an unBeatable combination of delight and well wishing. IT is the ultimate emotional experience that people could share with each other, fully aware of the importance of love, Russell ll wrote in his autobiography, after so many lonely years, I know what life and love may be. Now, if I sleep, I shall sleep fulfilled. Russell's acknowledged of the importance of seeking knowledge at every opportunity, whether to Better understand fellow man or the world in which we live, comes as no surprise. Widely acknowledged as an expert in many fields, Russell actively followed his second passion. His academic achievements are far too numerous to list, but he won the nobel prize in literature, discovered rustles paradox leading to new thinking in logic and set theory, and was recognized as one the founders of modern analytic philosophy. Human suffering is unfortunately universal, inevitable and unescapable, of which Russell was all too aware. Pity, further suffering of mankind became his third passion, which LED him to dedicate much of his life to easing the pain of others through political and social activism. He was a pacifist who spoke out against war in one thousand hundred and fifty five. He released the Russell's stein manifesto, which highlighted the dangers of nuclear weapons. He was also an active participant improving the rights of women. Russell is outstanding to the extent that his contributions and achievements still remain relevant to this day, there have been many attempts to sum up his remarkable life, but perhaps the best description of what was important to him comes from russia himself in his prolog. What I have lived for.