When The Principles of Mathematics was finished, I settled down to a resolute attempt to find a solution of the paradoxes. I felt this as almost a personal challenge and I would, if necessary, have spent the whole of the rest of my life in an attempt to meet it. But for two reasons I found this exceedingly disagreeable. In the first place, the whole problem struck me as trivial and I hated having to concentrate attention upon something that did not seem intrinsically interesting. In the second place, try as I would, I could make no progress.
Source: My Philosophical Development, chap. 7：1959．
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