They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles. — 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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that… — 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
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — 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
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change… — 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
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual… — 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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work. — 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
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. — 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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