Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happines…

Bertrand Russell
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ✨ Portraits from Memory and Other Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ✨ Portraits from Memory and Other Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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