The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Bertrand Russell Talking About Exact Thinking In Philosophy
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.