 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than in action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.
Source: Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness, and Other Essays, 1935, Chapter 2: "Useless" knowledge
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