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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 the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

Life

Time

Freedom

Yield

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. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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 has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

World

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

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.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Time

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

Time

Books

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

Time

Books

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Jimmy Rushing

Time

Singing

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.