the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The war of all against all.

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.

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.

-- Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

-- Bertrand Russell

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

-- Travis Kalanick

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear.

-- Arianna Huffington

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

-- Frida Kahlo

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

-- Hans Eysenck