More quotes by Bertrand Russell

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"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."
"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."