The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
From Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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