The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 67
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 7
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 6
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 6
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 5
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 3
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. 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
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
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 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
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. 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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 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
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 0