5 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Relationships

Bertrand Russell quotes on relationships

105. Even in civilized mankind faint traces of a monogamous instinct can sometimes be perceived.

107. The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

119. Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

124. A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

126. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.