 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Mozart used to compose music in order to forget his duns and his debts by escaping into a world of phantasy. If he had followed the advice of eminent psychoanalysts, he would instead have drawn up a careful balance sheet of receipts and expenditures and set to work to devise economies by which the two could be made to balance. If he had done this, he would have lost his income, and we should have lost his music.
Source: Flight from Reality' in: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1.
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For those whose talents are readily apparent, we appreciate them and watch their development with a generous heart. But for those whose talents are not immediately obvious, we have less tolerance. And so we tend to despise and beat those who do not match our common sense or who can do little of what we can do.
Today, we know that people have many talents. However, they are still ‘intolerant’ of those they don't understand or don't like, although not as much as in the past.