 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
It is a help towards sanity and calm judgment to acquire the habit of seeing contemporary events in their historical setting, and of imagining them as they will appear when they are in the past. ... We live in the present, and in the present we must act; but life is not all action, and action is best when it proceeds from a wide survey in which the present loses the sharpness of its emotional insistence.
Source: Free thought and official propaganda, delivered at South Place Institute on March 24,1922.
Reprinted in: Sceptical Essays, 1928, p.154
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