In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two
Interpretation
The quote suggests that personal growth and change are necessary when confronting issues of inadequacy or imbalance in one's life.
Bertrand Russell's quote reflects on the idea that spaces in our lives—symbolized by a closet—can hold items that may feel inadequate, obsolete, or lacking in quantity. This metaphor emphasizes the importance of reevaluating our beliefs, possessions, and relationships, suggesting that just as one should address a cluttered or poorly functioning closet, we should also seek balance and fulfillment in other areas of our lives.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal development.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.
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