 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.
Source: Bertrand Russell: he Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.5: Fatigue
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In this statement by Russell, both the Western rationalist mindset and the Eastern attitude of resignation are evident. However, rather than ‘resignation’, it seems to be more of a positive attitude of resignation, that there is no point in dwelling on a problem that cannot be solved by serious thought forever.
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