Bertrand Russell

An excerpt from the beginning of "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell. This piece is on the pursuit of sin, and reconciling your values with your actions. My pleasures are not my vices, but the outward world doesn't quite agree.

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Bertrand Russell on the Pursuit of Sin

Context: Early 1900s

Source: P.45 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell on the Intellectual Pleasures

Source: P.56 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell On Boredom

Via BBC Archives 

The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'.

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

BBC Archives Bertrand Russell The Role of the Individual 1948

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[Lyrics]

There’s too much weight on me (repeat) 

Tell mother I’m sorry
There’s no reason to follow me
I’m upset and boring
Let me alone with this cold world
I know you were sad
I understand now at my age 
I used to be mad but now I float away
Love and the essence that played itself out
I don’t think it was meant to be anything else
I hold you high and I hold you low
My love for you is bipolar something that you already know
Cause you know everything
You’re every song I sing
I still read your diary in forward motion

There’s too much weight on me (repeat) 

You used to sing when I was a small boy
We'll build forts, I love
We built forts
We built forts
I remember the time they’ve been fallen from a star
Now you are in my
I’ll finish this life from finish to start

I won’t give up 

I learn from your life and your soul and your heart
You’re my moon in my sky, you’re everything fun

And I will not give in to the negative thoughts
That persuade me to live in the dark
I know I’m the spark (repeat)
There’s too much weight on me (repeat)

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254 Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell On Boredom

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