Bertrand Russell

The only thing that can make us strong is to be brave.

The only thing that can make us rich is to be generous.

The only thing that can make us beautiful is to be true.

The only thing that can make us immortal is to be remembered.

The only thing that can make us human is to be compassionate.

The only thing that can make us divine is to be loving.

The only thing that can make us complete is to be whole.

The only thing that can make us perfect is to be ourselves.

The only thing that can make us happy is to be useful.

The only thing that can make us wise is to be curious.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do so.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.