Matt: Russell’s Treadmill
From Bertrand Russell’s A Conquest of Happiness.
It is very singular how little men seem to realize that they are not caught in the grip of a mechanism from which there is no escape, but that the treadmill is one upon which they remain merely because they have not noticed that it fails to take them up to a higher level.
He also says later, “There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” 
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