Bertrand Russell Quotes About Envy

• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

• Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Desire, May

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

• Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Causes, Unhappiness

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

• Envy is the basis of democracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Democracy, Bases

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 6

• A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Envy, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

• Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Intellectual, Vices

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

• Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

  Bertrand Russell

  Successful, Envy, Millionaire

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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