More From Bertrand Russell
- "I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite."
- "Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
- "Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
More In Good
- "Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."― Nelson Algren
- "Be not simply good – be good for something."― Henry David Thoreau
- "No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."― Hunter S. Thompson