5 Bertrand Russell Quotes on Wellbeing

Bertrand Russell quotes on wellbeing

21. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

38. All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

100. Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

125. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

205. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.