More quotes by Bertrand Russell

"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."
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"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."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."