"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
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Bertrand Russell
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Quotes by Bertrand Russell
"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"
"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"
"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."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"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."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"La Ciencia en ningún momento está totalmente en lo cierto, pero rara vez está completamente equivocada y tiene en general mayores posibilidades de estar en lo cierto que las teorías no científicas."
"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"
"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."
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
"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 mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"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."