Bertrand Russell

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.

What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

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.

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.