Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970
Birthday: May 18
Death: February 2
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge
topic: Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be, Burglars