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.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.