I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Certain things are indispensable to the happiness of most men, but these are simple things: food and shelter, health, love, successful work… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
