Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense... - Bertrand Russell

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

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"