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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.


Bertrand Russel

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BERTRAND DELANOE There are always jokes, and that's the best part of it. In order to become a team, you have to get t...
BERTRAND BERRY He made them, and they were big for us. I just hate that we wasted that performance with a loss.
BERTRAND BERRY It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living free...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is fo...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasur...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditio...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he re...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things
are what they seem. We th...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a conc...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great politica...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pur...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE The life of wild animals is a struggle for existence. The full exertion of all their faculties and a...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE The Allied governments, for example, with the British as executors, maintained in place the food blo...
RUSSEL H.S. STOLFI Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
BERTRAND RUSSELL No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to scie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribl...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ide...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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