To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is something far more than the 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 RUSSELLA 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 RUSSELLI 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 RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
BERTRAND RUSSELL