The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
(Conquest of Happiness, 1930)

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

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

Bertrand Russell (What I Believe, 1925)

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell (Quoted in the Quotable Bertrand Russell, 1993)

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