Bertrand Russell

"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."

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

"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."

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

"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."

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

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

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

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

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

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

"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 happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

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

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

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

"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 mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."