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Relation Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
- Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
- In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
- Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
- A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,…
- Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely…
- It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires…
- Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
- I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man…
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