Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. — Heinrich Mann Copy Share Image
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all... Our forefathers opened the Bible to… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the… — Plato 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
“With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and… — Ray Lyman Wilbur Copy Share Image
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer 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
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“They realized that belief of whatever sort-whether it was the faith in History and the State, as in the shattered halls of… — Alexander McCall Smith 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 the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or…” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/bertrand-russell-69_certain_the-church-is-in-its-major-part-an-oppon_1591489.jpg)
