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
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — 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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