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
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.
Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture