Bertrand Russell Quotes About Life
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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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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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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Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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 and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
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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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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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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
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