"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
― Bertrand Russell
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Happiness
― Bertrand Russell
More From Bertrand Russell
- "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
- "I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return."
- "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
More In Happiness
- "By asking the question ‘Am I happy?,’ and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – ‘Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?’"― Alastair Campbell
- "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."― Epictetus
- "So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity."― Duncan Sheik