Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I do not like mystical language, and yet I hardly know how to express what I mean without employing phrases that sound… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The secret of happiness is very simply this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I do not myself think there is any superior rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But self-deception of this kind (ed persecution) cannot lead to any solid happiness. In the back of your mind you will know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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