A review by mariaayoub
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

5.0

This is THE book. The book that I wish I had read when I was younger. Bertrand has an awesome ability to turn hazy thoughts about happiness and conflicting behavior that intermittingly plague most people and distill them into blazingly clear notions and maxims. I found myself often stopping to relish certain paragraphs over and over again for their ostensibly obvious and yet not fully-realized rationality, as if to cement the knowledge the same way he advocates for emphatic, deliberate concentration on facts if you were to instill them into your subconscious. It was a little bit disheartening to read how the state of affairs regarding the propagation of infantile moral conducts during childhood still the same 100 years later.