Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
Interpretation
Love, children, and work connect individuals to the world around them.
In this quote, Bertrand Russell emphasizes that love, the responsibilities associated with raising children, and the act of working are fundamental forces that nourish and enhance our connections with the world. These elements not only enrich our personal lives but also create meaningful interactions with society at large, establishing a fertile ground for growth and understanding.
In practice
In a speech about community engagement, one might say, 'As Bertrand Russell said, love, children, and work are essential for creating strong relationships in our society.'
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.
Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.
She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.
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