"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."
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Bertrand Russell
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Quotes by Bertrand Russell
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
"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."
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."
"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."
"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."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"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."