Quotations
"It is altogether extraordinary to me that you should love me—I feel myself so rugged and ruthless, and so removed from the whole aesthetic side of life—a sort of logic machine warranted to destroy any ideal that is not very robust... People think me cynical, but that is superficial. The bottom feeling is one of affection for almost everybody."
Bertrand Russell, 1911
(in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell)
"... it will help to understand that the present agony of social isolation, the impersonality, structurelessness, and sense of meaninglessness from which so many people suffer are symptoms of the breakdown of the past rather than intimations of the future."
Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, p.329
Language fun
WHICH versus THAT
Much has been said on WHICH versus THAT. Humorously, the word "which" tells you that something has occurred, whereas the word "that" tells you which thing you're talking about!