Love Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

— Bertrand Russell

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

— Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

— Bertrand Russell

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

— Bertrand Russell

Do not feel certain of anything.

— Bertrand Russell

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

— Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

— Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

— Bertrand Russell

Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness

— Bertrand Russell

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

— Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

— Bertrand Russell

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

— Bertrand Russell

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that…

— Bertrand Russell

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents…

— Bertrand Russell

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it…

— Bertrand Russell

“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.”

— Bertrand Russell

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have…

— Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for…

— Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

— Bertrand Russell

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

— Bertrand Russell

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one…

— Bertrand Russell

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist…

— Bertrand Russell

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest…

— Bertrand Russell

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said…

— Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure…

— Bertrand Russell

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may…

— Bertrand Russell

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned…

— Bertrand Russell

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical…

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful…

— Bertrand Russell

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come…

— Bertrand Russell

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I…

— Bertrand Russell

“I must, I must before I die find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have…

— Bertrand Russell

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

— Bertrand Russell

“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of…

— Bertrand Russell

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every…

— Bertrand Russell