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 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.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- 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.
- Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Best Quotes
- The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
- The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
- I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'
- Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
- Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
- I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years I'm like a giddy little kid.
- Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
- Faith is personal if it's to be real.
- I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
- All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.