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
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.Bertrand Russell
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.Bertrand Russell
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.John Locke
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.Hannah Arendt