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 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.
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- 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.
- The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Best Quotes
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain
- The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
- Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
- What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
- Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
- The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.