It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and… — 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
“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
Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — 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 life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All joy in true thought is part of the intellectual love of God,” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy:… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — 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
Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. — 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
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. — 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
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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