To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Tag: Bertrand Russell
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.