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Time Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is…
- We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.…
- 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…
- To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
- You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from…
- An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there…
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in…
- Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
- It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious…
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious…
- I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of…
- I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when…
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he…
- Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to…
- 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,…
- 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…
- When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory,…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani