Bertrand Russell Quotes About Happiness

• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

• The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Secret, World

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

• Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, People, Doe

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

• Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Eugenics, People

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Exercise, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

• To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, People, Effort

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

• Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Friendly, Fundamentals

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.107, Routledge

• Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.127, Routledge

• Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Depressing, Hate

• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

• Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

• Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Public Opinion, Indifferent

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.75, Lulu Press, Inc

• The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Satisfaction, Enterprise

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.151, Routledge

• Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

• Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Procrastination

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

• The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Men, Needed

• A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Lying, Real

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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