A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Merely to realize the causes of one’s own envious feelings is to take a long step towards curing them. The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 6 “Envy” (1930)
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell (PDF)
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
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> There were once upon a time two sausage machines, exquisitely constructed for the purpose of turning pig into the most delicious sausages. One of these retained his zest for pig and produced sausages innumerable; the other said: 'What is pig to me? My own works are far more interesting and wonderful than any pig.' He refused pig and set to work to study his inside...
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much. Even great sorrows can be survived; troubles which seem as if they must put an end to happiness for life, fade with the lapse of time until it becomes almost impossible to remember their poignancy. But over and above these self-centered considerations is the fact that one’s ego is no very large part of the world. The man who can center his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
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Ricordare e difendere la nostra umanità, mettendo al bando le armi nucleari https://retepacedisarmo.org/2025/ricordare-e-difendere-la-nostra-umanita-mettendo-al-bando-le-armi-nucleari/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ricordare-e-difendere-la-nostra-umanita-mettendo-al-bando-le-armi-nucleari #ManifestoRussel-Einstein #ReteItalianaPaceDisarmo #BertrandRussell #AlbertEinstein #JózefRot...
> 人は,関心を寄せるものが多ければ多いほど,よりいっそう幸福になる機会が多くなり,また,ますます運命に左右されることが少なくなる。その理由は,何か一つを失っても,別のものを頼る(←別のものに撤退する)ことができるからである。
> The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Issac Newton (1687) Why You Don’t Float Away
https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/blog/when-newton-explained-why-you-dont-float-away
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
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#QoTD “You may kill an #artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought. You may put a man to death because he loves his fellow-men, but you will not by so doing acquire the love which made his happiness. Force is impotent in such matters; it is only as regards material goods that it is effective. For this reason the men who believe in force are the men whose thoughts and desires are preoccupied with material goods.“
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
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A bit of #science #philosophy and #comedy #bertrandrussell #noamchomsky #carlsagan #georgecarlin Sign of our times. History does repeat itself as we keep making the same mistakes. What will our next generations do to avoid this? That is the essential question, as we know that this will pass.
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/770…
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
-- Bertrand Russell
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