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. ”