Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 May 1872
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.