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By addressing the causes of unhappiness and offering guidance on self-awareness, relationships, and personal meaning, Russell's timeless wisdom continues to inspire readers to conquer their own happiness.
At the very end of his book titled The Conquest of Happiness, Russell offers two summary paragraphs in which he discusses the “happy life.”
The key to Russell’s view of happiness resides in the idea that except in very rare cases, happiness is not something that simply happens; rather, it is something that must be achieved through effort – conquered. This makes me think of the saying that good things do not come to those who wait.
Jun 21, 2024 · Here (at 27') Russell’s answer sparkles with brilliant simplicity: ‘If a philosophy is to bring happiness, it should be inspired by kindly feeling. Now Marx is not inspired by kindly feeling.
Feb 8, 2021 · Bertrand Russell’s book ‘The Conquest of Happiness’ (1930) attempts to analyse the conditions for happiness in our modern world, focusing on the mindsets of the unhappy and the happy person...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades.
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Feb 21, 2023 · Bertrand Russell. Russell writes: The world is vast and our own powers are limited. 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. And to demand too much is the surest way of getting even less than is possible.
