Russell: "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

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."

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

Russell: "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

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

Russell: "I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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

Russell: "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."

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

Russell: "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Russell: "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

Russell: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

Russell: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Russell: "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

Russell: "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

Russell: "Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

Russell: "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Russell: "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."

Russell: "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."