Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ”

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ”

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ”

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ”

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ”

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

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ”

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. ”