When I was a teenager I tried to read Bertrand Russell and could barely understand a word. However, I recently found this list of principles, extracted from Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. They could be Epicurean: – Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. – Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by …
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“I believe in Spinoza’s god, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, not in a god who concerns himself in the fate and doings of mankind”. (Albert Einstein)
All the atoms in our own bodies used to exist in beings that are long dead. We are made of recycled atoms from the bodies of dead dynosaurs and other animals that no longer exist except as microscopic organisms – plants, bodies of water, heavenly bodies, all the way down to the stardust we originally …
“People think they know what happens when they die. They don’t”. (Bill Maher in the film “Religulous”)
If you have visited Herculaneum, one of the towns buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, you will be familiar with the Villa of the Papyri, owned at the time by Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a politician and father-in-law of Julius Caesar. It was a seaside villa on a palatial scale – the width of …
