Bertrand Russell Quotes About Fate

• The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Fate, Opportunity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

• It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fate, Form, Idealism

  Marriage and Morals ch. 7 (1929)

• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Time, Fate

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

• A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fate, Blow, Greatness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.132, Lulu Press, Inc

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