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Happiness that needs intoxication of any kind is spurious; satisfying happiness comes with the fullest use of one's faculties

Drawn from what Bertrand Russell said

Subjecthappiness
What this subject means

happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: Happiness is the aim, and the question is what it consists of

What Bertrand Russell actually said

  1. Bertrand Russell British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970)
    The happiness that requires intoxication of no matter what sort is a spurious and unsatisfying kind. 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.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Conquest of Happiness (1930)gutenberg.org

    c. 1930

    All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 9th

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