Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption. Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
