The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 67
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 6
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 5
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0