Christopher Cunningham

“...Contemplation enlarges not only the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war will all the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thraldom of narrow hopes and fears.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.”
― Joan Aiken

“To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy