Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Interpretation
True hope for the world arises from acts of love and kindness.
Bertrand Russell emphasizes that the essence of life and the hope of our world are intrinsically linked to our actions rooted in love. It suggests that meaningful change and a better future can only be achieved through acts of compassion and love towards one another.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about the importance of community service.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes
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