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
- 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.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
- 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.
- 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.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
- Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.