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Bertrand Russell Quotes about Happiness

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Secret, World
Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Happy, Hippie
Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Music, Happy Life

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Happy, Mind
Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell
Life, Happiness, Gratitude

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Depressing, Hate

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Men, Needed

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Bertrand Russell
Funny, Happiness, Laughter
"The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, People, Effort
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Bertrand Russell
Love, Happiness, Marriage
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell
Life, Happiness, Procrastination
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Happiness, Happy
Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Eugenics, People
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Friendly, Fundamentals
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.107, Routledge

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, People, Doe
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Lying, Real
Bertrand Russell (2014). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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
Change, Happiness, Success
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Sleep, Math
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Exercise, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell
Change, Happiness, Happy
Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Satisfaction, Enterprise
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.151, Routledge

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Race, People
"Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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
Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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