The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
- Topic: Decision
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
More Quotes from Yosemite National Park
More on Decision
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
