Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.


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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more tha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by wearine...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night an...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l...
DORA RUSSELL
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
RUSSELL BRAND
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL