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
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
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.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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.