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

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

"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"

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

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

"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."