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> There were once upon a time two sausage machines, exquisitely constructed for the purpose of turning pig into the most delicious sausages.  One of these retained his zest for pig and produced sausages innumerable; the other said: 'What is pig to me? My own works are far more interesting and wonderful than any pig.' He refused pig and set to work to study his inside...
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#SausageMakers #RussellOnZest #RussellOnHappiness #ConquestOfHappiness #BertrandRussell

russell-j.comラッセル幸福論 第11章 020_いろいろな熱意の形態

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much. Even great sorrows can be survived; troubles which seem as if they must put an end to happiness for life, fade with the lapse of time until it becomes almost impossible to remember their poignancy. But over and above these self-centered considerations is the fact that one’s ego is no very large part of the world. The man who can center his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/775…

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> 人は,関心を寄せるものが多ければ多いほど,よりいっそう幸福になる機会が多くなり,また,ますます運命に左右されることが少なくなる。その理由は,何か一つを失っても,別のものを頼る(←別のものに撤退する)ことができるからである。

> The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

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#RussellOnInterests #BertrandRussell

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russell-j.comラッセル幸福論 第11章 01_幸福な人たちの特徴

#QoTD “You may kill an #artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought. You may put a man to death because he loves his fellow-men, but you will not by so doing acquire the love which made his happiness. Force is impotent in such matters; it is only as regards material goods that it is effective. For this reason the men who believe in force are the men whose thoughts and desires are preoccupied with material goods.“
#BertrandRussell

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/770…

WIST Quotations · Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 "Fatigue" (1930) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST QuotationsIt is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.