Boredom is...a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell · Marriage and Morals (1929), ch. 7

Bertrand Russell · Sceptical Essays (1928), ch. 1

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