"To realize the unimportance of time is the…" — Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a… — Nicolas Cage
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is… — John Calvin
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but… — George Carlin
Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or… — Edward Alsworth Ross
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. — Rabindranath Tagore
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is… — Thomas Brooks
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you… — Ronald Reagan
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! — Unknown Author
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. — John Climacus
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light… — Wendell Berry
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I… — Unknown Author

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