Bertrand Russell on Happiness & Unhappiness

Thoughts on happiness and unhappiness from one of the twentieth century's most notable philosophers, mathematicians, and activists.

I was doing some research about eighteen months ago for a series of articles on the nature of happiness, and material came my way from mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. If you have not heard of him before, here’s a very brief introduction;

Bertrand A.W. Russell was a British philosopher born in London to an aristocratic family in 1872. His …