The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not…

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work...

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal...

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal...

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

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

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if...

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It...

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the...

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is...

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is...

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their...

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their...

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also...

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...$