Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.

Bertrand Russell

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell

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

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Bertrand Russell

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

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