The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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