Bertrand Russell Quotes About Brothers

• 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

• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Science, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

• Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Race, Population

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.47, Routledge

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