“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
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — 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
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. — 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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. — 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
“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of… — 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
“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Happiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.” — 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
“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental… — 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
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it. — 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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