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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

— Bertrand Russell

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bertrand Russell

About Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1950, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.