The longing for love, the pursuit of knowledge and the overwhelming sympathy for human suffering have dominated my life. These three passions, like hurricanes, have blown me hither and thither in a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.

What do I Live for, written by Bertrand Russell, is the preface of Russell's Autobiography. This article is an essay on Russell's thoughts, from which we can get a glimpse of Russell's lofty ideological realm and great personality. It has been included in Jiangsu Education Publishing House's compulsory 5 textbooks for senior high school Chinese and People's Education Publishing House's new version of the first volume of eighth grade Chinese textbooks.

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Russell pursues love. In his long life, he loved more than one woman and experienced several marital changes, but he was always sincere.

Russell wrote 71 kinds of books and thousands of papers in his life, and made great achievements in philosophy, mathematics, politics, history, religion, sociology, etc., enjoying the title of "encyclopedic thinker". He is known as one of the "most famous and influential philosophers in the 2th century" and is also regarded by countless people as a "prophet of the future".

He is also a famous mathematician, logician and social activist, and is also recognized as a "debater with inspiring genius". In 195, he won Nobel Prize in Literature, known as the "encyclopedic writer".

Russell's literary works are not many, and his literary achievements have not reached the peak. However, people love me, love my dog, and in 195, Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him on the grounds that "it is of great significance to commend him for defending the diversity of humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."

Russell pursued peace and opposed war all his life, and was imprisoned twice for opposing the war. In 1961, 89-year-old Russell was detained for seven days for participating in a demonstration of nuclear disarmament. In 1967, he and Sartre also set up a civil court-"Russell Court" to expose American war crimes.

Russell's life is a passionate, passionate and romantic life, a life of endless pursuit of knowledge, a life of defending peace, full of sympathy and care for human suffering, and such a life is of course colorful and colorful.