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.
Weitere Zitate von Bertrand Russell
Zum Autor"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."
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life."
"Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached."