“The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of… — 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
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — 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
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my… — 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
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
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
“Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a… — 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
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
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is a commonplace that happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly; and it would seem that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. — 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
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than… — 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
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain… — 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
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
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — 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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