This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Life, at all times full of pain, is more painful in our time than in the two centuries that preceded it. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“At every moment of life the civilised man is hedged about by restrictions of impulse: if he happens to feel cheerful he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But even when a man has offended against his own rational code, I doubt whether a sense of sin is the best… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I must, I must before I die find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — 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
I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing… — 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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