Betrand Russell on Human Freedom
"A Free Man's Worship", inWhy I Am Not A Christian, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957) 109.
In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the
God created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven
which inspires the insight of our best moments. In action, in desire,
we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in
thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow-men, free
from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even,
while we live, from the tyranny of death. Let us learn, then, that
energy of faith which enables us to live constantly in the vision of
the good; and let us descend, in action, into the world of fact, with
that vision always before us.
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