The World Motivation
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”
— Bertrand Russell · Dad
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.