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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy,

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Real, Things In Life

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Roots, Tree
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Powerful, Men
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Life, Relationship
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Happiness, Marriage
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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
Love, Life, Giving
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.80, Routledge

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Children, War
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.240, Psychology Press

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
Love, Honesty, Simple
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.626, Routledge

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Inspirational, Life
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Men, Self
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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, Life, Wedding
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Brother, Children
Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.124, Routledge

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.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Fall, People
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Good God, Said

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Heaven, Vision
"Bertrand Russell's Best".

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.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Art, Philosophy

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Christian, Kindness

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.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Hate, Men
Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell
Love, Romance, Engagement
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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