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Yet Russell’s own life was not guided exclusively by reason or logic, either. He suffered from depression at times. During one episode when he was young, he stood watching the sunset and thought about suicide—but he was saved, he said, by the fact that he still wanted to learn more mathematics.
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
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