“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.”
— Bertrand Russell
“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.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. 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.”
— Bertrand Russell
“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.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty; they should be made to feel that nothing gives one human being rights over another, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.”
— Bertrand Russell
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
— Bertrand Russell
“We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.”
— Bertrand Russell
“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.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.”
— Bertrand Russell
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.”
— Bertrand Russell