Bertrand Russell Quotes about Time

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

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

Bertrand Russell

Time, Realizing, Gates

Bertrand Russell (1981). “Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield

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

Bertrand Russell

Wisdom, Time, Real

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

Time, Truth, Thinking

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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.

Bertrand Russell

Time, Lying, Thinking

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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.

Bertrand Russell

Death, Time, Fate

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

Time, Prejudice, Authority

Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.152, Routledge

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.

Bertrand Russell

Time, Philosophy, Philosophical