Bertrand Russell

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

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three 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."

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

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

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

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

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

"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."

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

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

"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."

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

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"

"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."

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

"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."