Bertrand Russell Quotes

I have no human feelings.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

We think too much and feel too little.

I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.