Word: zationâ
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...will quarrel with his thesis: that unhappiness is widespread through civili-zation???"very largely due to mistaken views of the world, mistaken ethics, mistaken habits of life . . . matters which lie within the power of the individual." Confesses Russell: "I was not born happy. ... In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life. . . . This is due partly . . . to having discovered what were the things that I most desired . . . partly ... to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire...
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