Bertrand Russell Quotes About Affection

• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

• Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Giving, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

• Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Best Love, Affection, Liberated

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.136, Routledge

• The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Art, Mean

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.19, Routledge

• You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Art, Powerful

• The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Psychology, Moral

  Marriage and Morals ch. 16 (1929)

• A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Delight, World, Affection

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.202, Routledge

• No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Affection, Substitutes

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.147, Psychology Press

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