 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I was already accustomed to being accused of undue slavery to reason, and I thought perhaps that he (D. H. Lawrence) could give me a vivifying dose of unreason. I did in fact acquire a certain stimulus from him, and I think the book that I wrote in spite of his blasts of denunciation was better than it would have been if I had not known him. But this is not to say that there was anything good in his ideas..
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 1:The First War, 1968
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At the urging of the woman Russell loved most in his life, Lady Ottoline Morrell (sister of the 6th Duke of Portland), Russell had a brief (from around January 1915 to March 1916) but intense association with D. H. Lawrence. The only point of agreement was their opposition to the First World War. Russell thought there was little good in Lawrence's ideas, but said he was attracted to him because he had a ‘strength that I did not have’. However, the relationship eventually ended in a fractious manner, as they had little in common or things they could relate to.
For more information on their relationship, see the following paper.
Tagaji Shibata, ‘D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell.’
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