The Conquest of Happiness Quotes

“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:happinessexperience

“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:happinesssuccess

“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:happinesstyranny

“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:truthsatisfaction

“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:timeinterest

“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:fear

“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:fearboredom

“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:friendship

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:wisdomthought

“All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments .”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:reasonsin