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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is something far more than the 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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