Bertrand Russell Quotes on happiness

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... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live... view

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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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... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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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... view

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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... view

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power... view

By: Bertrand Russell

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