Bertrand Russell Quotes

“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:work

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:work relationship

“The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:work humility satisfaction

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:books

“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“events only become experiences through the interest that we take in them: if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:experience interest

“The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways, but without materials from the external world it is powerless”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:experience mind intelligence

“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:success boredom

“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:poverty wealth misery

“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

topic:science

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