The Ridiculous Lives of Philosophers

Three Stories That'll Crack You Up

Bertrand Russell once wrote:

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

And unfortunately, in our caffeine-fueled economy of workaholics, it is all too easy to believe that our work is the end all be all and forget to laugh at ourselves. This is why I am a big fan of biographies. Under …