Bertrand Russell

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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.

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.