Top 56 Bertrand Russell Love Quotes
#1. With civilized men ... , it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.
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#3. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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#4. Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
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#5. I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.
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#6. Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
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#7. We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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#8. Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
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#9. I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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#10. The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
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#12. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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#13. Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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#14. Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.
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#15. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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#16. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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#17. Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.
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#18. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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#20. We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.
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#21. Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty ... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
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#22. Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
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#23. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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#24. You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought. You may put a man do death because he loves his fellow-men, but you will not by so doing acquire the love which made his happiness.
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#25. Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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#26. One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
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#27. Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.
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#28. Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
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#29. Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.
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#30. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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#31. 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, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
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#32. It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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#33. The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.
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#35. I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.
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#36. For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
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#37. The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing ... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
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#38. I often long to ... give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.
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#39. [If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.
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#40. I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree. My view is this: The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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#41. Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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#42. Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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#43. Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
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#44. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. If
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#45. For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him.
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#46. Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
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#47. We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
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#48. The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
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#50. The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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#51. Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.
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#52. If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased
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#53. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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#54. Love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.
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#55. Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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