러셀의 자서전 2권을 다 읽었다. 기억에 남는 구절들을 발췌하여 남긴다.

I no longer have the feeling of powers unrealized within me, which used to be a perpetual torture.

저런 말을 할 수 있다는 것이 대단하면서도 조금은 슬프다고 생각했다.

The whole region in my mind where you lived, seems burnt out.
There is nothing for us both but to try and forget each other.
Goodbye--

I thought until last night, that our love would grow and grow until it was strong as loneliness itself.
I have gazed down Eternity with you. I have held reins of glory in my two hands-- Now, though I will still believe in the beauty of eternal things, they will not be for me. You will put the crown on your work. You will stand on the heights of impersonal greatness. I worship you but our souls are strangers-- I pray that I may soon be worn out and this torture ended.

Colette과 주고 받은 편지의 내용이다.

My time passes very fruitfully. In a normal day, I do four hours philosophical writing, four hours philosophical reading, and four hours general reading-- so you can understand my wanting a lot of books.

반전운동으로 감옥에 가게 되었을 때 자신의 형에게 보낸 편지 중 일부.

I am sorry to say that at the moment I am so busy as to be convinced that life has no meaning whatever, and that being so, I do not see how I can answer your questions intelligently.
I do not see that we can judge what would be the result of the discovery of truth, since none has hitherto been discovered.

인생의 의미에 대해서 묻는 장문의 편지에 대한 답변이다.

I think a book about how to think clearly might be very useful, but I do not think I could write it. --omitted-- I haven't the vaguest idea either how I think or how one ought to think. The process, so far as I know it, is as instinctive and unconscious as digestion. I fill my mind with whatever relevant knowledge I can find, and just wait. With luck, there comes a moment when the work is done, but in the meantime my conscious mind has been occupied with other things. This sort of thing won't do for a book

생각하는 방법에 대한 책을 써보는 것이 어떠냐고 제안 받았을 때의 답장.