"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine that there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness."
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and public intellectual whose work shaped analytic philosophy and modern logic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 and was an influential peace activist.