Bertrand Russell

"Always the skeptical intellect, when I have most wished it silent, has whispered doubts to me, has cut me off from the facile enthusiasms of others, and has transported me into a desolate solitude. ... [M]y most profound feelings have remained always solitary and have found in human things no companionship. The sea, the starts, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best..."

  -Bertrand Russell