Bertrand Russell

Life Quotes

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
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Life Quotes

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. -
Bertrand Russell

Humor Quotes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. -
Bertrand Russell
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Happiness Quotes

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

Happiness Quotes

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. -
Bertrand Russell
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Love Quotes

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. -
Bertrand Russell