Time Quotes by Bertrand Russell

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

If today were a fish I'd throw it back

— Bertrand Russell

Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

— Bertrand Russell

“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study…

— Bertrand Russell

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

— Bertrand Russell

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

— Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that…

— Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

— Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

— Bertrand Russell

“The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age…

— Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or…

— Bertrand Russell

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual…

— Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a…

— Bertrand Russell

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations…

— Bertrand Russell

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either…

— Bertrand Russell

“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt…

— Bertrand Russell

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our…

— Bertrand Russell

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my…

— Bertrand Russell

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,…

— Bertrand Russell

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than…

— Bertrand Russell

Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal…

— Bertrand Russell

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense…

— Bertrand Russell

“Life, at all times full of pain, is more painful in our time than in the two centuries that preceded it. The…

— Bertrand Russell

“There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth…

— Bertrand Russell

“Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments. Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and…

— Bertrand Russell

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either…

— Bertrand Russell

“It has been argued that we have reason to know that the future will resemble the past, because what was the future…

— Bertrand Russell

“At every moment of life the civilised man is hedged about by restrictions of impulse: if he happens to feel cheerful he…

— Bertrand Russell

“Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many…

— Bertrand Russell

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

— Bertrand Russell

“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

— Bertrand Russell

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

— Bertrand Russell

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not…

— Bertrand Russell

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

— Bertrand Russell