To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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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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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- 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.
- The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- 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.
- Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Best Quotes
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- You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
- I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
- History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
- I have lost the half of myself - a soul for which mine was made.
- To some extent I liken slavery to death.
- Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
- A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.