Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Bertrand Russell Read Quote
