 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The years of adolescence were to me very lonely and very unhappy. Both in the life of the emotions and in the life of the intellect, I was obliged to preserve an impenetrable secrecy towards my people. My interests were divided between sex, religion, and mathematics. I find the recollection of my sexual preoccupation in adolescence unpleasant. I do not like to remember how I felt in those years, but I will do my best to relate things as they were and not as I could wish them to have been.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.１, chap. 1, 1967
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell is a remarkable autobiography with much to gain from reading it. A Japanese translation was published by Risosha between 1967 and 1973 by Ikki Hidaka (trans.), but unfortunately there are quite a few mistranslations. It would be nice if someone would publish a new translation.