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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell
Success, Work, Stress
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell
Christmas, Work, Holiday
Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Bertrand Russell
Work, Holiday, Men
'The Conquest of Happiness' (1930) ch. 5

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

Bertrand Russell
Work, Good Day, Bad Day
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.127, Psychology Press

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell
Work, Needs, World
Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Bertrand Russell
Running, Work, Men
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

Bertrand Russell
Work, Done, World

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