On getting money and spending it

"Broadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad".

In Praise of Idleness.
Bertrand Russell.

On the modern man and that that is to be done

"The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake".

In Praise of Idleness.
Bertrand Russell.