Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things. — 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 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
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. — 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
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. — 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
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific… — 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
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is… — 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
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
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the… — 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 there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the… — 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
“To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things -… — 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
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
“Certain things are indispensable to the happiness of most men, but these are simple things: food and shelter, health, love, successful work… — 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
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
