"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
"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"
"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."
"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."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"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."
"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 happy 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."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"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."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"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 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."