Bertrand Russell Top 10 Quotes
10 | The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. |
9 | To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
8 | War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
7 | One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. |
6 | It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. |
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. |
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
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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. |
2 | The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. |
1 | 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. |