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Bertrand Russell worked hard to write that. Work that we love to do falls into a different category.

• wk_end 12y ago
  Indeed, Russell is famously misquoted[1] as having said "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". [1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
  • NobleLie 12y ago
    Didn't know this was a misquote. Thanks. Still, it fits great in this thread's context obviously. Although I like and appreciate the point of it, this time one enjoys "wasting" shouldn't have initially been labelled wasted if it was actually enjoyed. Maybe I'm picking on the words too much. Perhaps this quote is intended to invoke a sense of strange loopiness. It's a proper defense to those who might feel guilty for being the type of idle that Russel describes. Once understanding it, one must wash away any notion (or criticism from society) that they are wasting time.
• cllns 12y ago
  "One of Marx’s greatest insights, delivered in an early book known as the 1844 Manuscripts, is that work can be one of the sources of our greatest joys." [1]: http://www.thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-karl-marx/ http://www.thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-karl-mar...
• brudgers 12y ago
  He was also a member of the leisure class - as a member of the Peerage. His grandfather was the Earl Russell and his father was a Viscount. Bertrand became 3rd Earl Russell in 1931 and that is the backbone of this essay. By then he had been jailed for Pacifism, written Principia Mathematics, and been Wittgenstein's doctoral advisor. And his most productive years still lay ahead.