The Conquest of Happiness Quotes

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

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“All the conditions of happiness are realised in the life of the man of science.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“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, The Conquest of Happiness

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“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“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, The Conquest of Happiness

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“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realisation of the world in which we live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“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

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