All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
Bertrand RussellTo the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
Bertrand RussellNine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
Bertrand RussellInto every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
Bertrand RussellI have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy โ 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