The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

instance is equally true in more important matters.
The man who enjoys watching football is to that
extent superior to the man who does not. The man
who enjoys reading is still more superior to the
man who does not, since opportunities for reading
are more frequent than opportunities for watching
football. The more things a man is interested in, the
more opportunities of happiness he has, and the
less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one
thing he can fall back upon another. Life is too
short to be interested in everything, but it is good
to be interested in as many things as are necessary
to fill our days. We are all prone to the malady of
the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of
the world spread out before him, turns away and
gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not
imagine that there is anything grand about the
introvert’s unhappiness.
There were once upon a time two sausage
machines, exquisitely constructed for the purpose
of turning pig into the most delicious sausages. One
of these retained his zest for pig and produced