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Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is... A quote often attributed to Bertrand Russell


Biography - Bertrand Russell:

British philosopher, logician and mathematician.
Born: 1872 - Died: 1970
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.


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Quote source: Quote of uncertain origin. No reliable source confirms that Bertrand Russell is the author. The phrase remains nevertheless appreciated and shared for its meaning.



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Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 











Quotes

Bertrand Russell also said...


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





One of the most difficult matters in all controversy is to distinguish disputes about words from disputes about facts.





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.





I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas: its aim is to approach truth by successive approximations.












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