Bertrand Russell

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

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

"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."

"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."

"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."

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

"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

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

"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"

"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."

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

"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."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

"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."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."