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
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are… — 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
“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
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — 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
“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 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
“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
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 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
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 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 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
“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 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. — 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
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
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
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