Search results for “bertrand russel on happiness”
Simone de Beauvoir on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
“The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laugh of a child at play.”
What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”
A Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments
How to revel in the “sudden awareness of the citizenry of all things within one world.”
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing
“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation
“The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.”
The Will to Doubt: Bertrand Russell on Free Thought and Our Only Effective Self-Defense Against Propaganda
“The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an interest in restraining the tyranny of majorities.”
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
Bertrand Russell on Immortality, Why Religion Exists, and What “The Good Life” Really Means
“There are forces making for happiness, and forces making for misery. We do not know which will prevail, but to act wisely we must be aware of both.”
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