“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”

— Bertrand Russell · Happiness quote

— BERTRAND RUSSELL

Philosopher & Mathematician · 1872 – 1970

British philosopher, logician and social critic, co-author of Principia Mathematica. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 and wrote the popular History of Western Philosophy.

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