To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear l... -Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell , Philosopher
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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. He made significant contributions to various fields of study, including philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Russell was also an outspoken advocate for peace, human rights, and nuclear disarmament.

Bertrand Russell Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons....
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country....
War does not determine who is right - only who is left....
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 wom...
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....
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact....
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education....
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change....
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery....
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting me...

Fear Quotes to Explore

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people....
I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they...
There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love....
Don't react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise....
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear....
Even death doesn't worry me, man. When my mother died it was because she finished her time on earth. I know that when I die I'll see her again, so how...
Knight without fear and without reproach....
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them....
The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shoul...
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the...