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