Quotation by Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher, mathematician. A Free Man's Worship and Other Essays, ch. 1 (1976).
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