 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Fads and hobbies, however, are in many cases, perhaps most, not a source of fundamental happiness, but a means of escape from reality, of forgetting for the moment some pain too difficult to be faced. Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
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Russell is not saying that we should not enjoy fads and hobbies. He is saying that it is not good to pursue fads and hobbies to excess, only to procrastinate on the problems that need to be faced. In doing so, he argues that what is necessary for lasting and more fundamental happiness is ‘a friendly interest in people and things’.
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