Bertrand Russell

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"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."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

"Those 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."

"Those 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."