Bertrand Russell Quotes

“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:happiness want

“For my own part, speaking personally, I have found the happiness of parenthood greater than any other that I have experienced.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:happiness experience

“success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:happiness success

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:happiness tyranny

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty”

― Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

topic:truth beauty

“No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:truth satisfaction

“Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:time interest

“Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

topic:knowledge understanding

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

topic:knowledge reason doubt

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

topic:knowledge science imagination

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