The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Best Quotes
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Let wind blow and the rain fall to wash and take away all problems, it's time for a change.
- I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
- U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
- I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
- When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.