black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Feeling Happiness Live
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Deep Nation Virtue
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Intelligence Prepare Present
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Himself Man Marriage Woman
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Freedom Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Philosophy Science Yourself

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertrand Russell Quotes