This explanation, this posture, this feature of reality highlighted by B. Russell, is one of the main motivating inducements that make me want to be filthy rich.
Russell & Moore, unsurprisingly lightly touching their chins/pipes
Incidentally, Russell basically chocks up Plato's disgust with the Sophists to his being a spoiled rich kid who didn't realize that smart people have to eat. He (Russell) also pokes fun at professors who endorse Plato's criticism of the Sophists, while they themselves are being paid to teach people stuff. This is pretty enjoyable for me.
Anyway. The other inducement for me to become filthy rich is the possibility thereby to make my life comparable in all external facets to that of a Wes Anderson character.
Anderson & Coppola, unsurprisingly somewhere beautiful
Also, the bit from Russell reminds me of a much belabored Hemingway quotation: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Hemingway, unsurprisingly with a bottle of wine
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This is great.
Anderson and Coppola. Mmm.
If you wrote and marketed well a self-help style book called "How to be Smart and Happy by Getting Rich," the propagation of your hypothesis could be the means by which you could test it out for yourself.
I'm sorry, did you just say you wanted to be like Bertrand Russell?
We can never be friends.
Also, Hemingway shot himself. So. Do the math.
...and I'll bet you'll enjoy doing that math you bastard.
...because it's something to not shoot yourself over.
BOOM.
Although, upon further thought, a book titled "How get Rich by being Smart and Happy" or, even better, "How to get Rich and Happy by being Smart" or of course "How to get Rich and Smart by being Happy" (the most like a self-help title) would have a better chance of selling.
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