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

— Bertrand Russell

1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Source: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value

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Bertrand Russell 562

logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and politi… 1872–1970

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized. Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a man’s life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 4

“May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Though widely attributed to Coelho on the internet, and originally added here within the section for The Alchemist, this specific form has not been located in any editions available in online searches. The directive "Let love be your guide" is a very old one, and did not originate with Coelho.
Misattributed

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.