It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
(Why Men Fight, 1916)

Bertrand Russell

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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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