Bertrand Russell Quotes About Time
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In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.
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All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
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The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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