To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Tag: Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.