Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Interpretation
Understanding that time is less important than our thoughts and feelings leads to true wisdom.
This quote by Bertrand Russell emphasizes that while time is a tangible aspect of our lives, it is not the primary concern when it comes to gaining wisdom. Instead, what truly matters is our thoughts and emotions, and learning to prioritize them over the mere passage of time allows us to cultivate a deeper understanding of life and ourselves.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the value of personal growth over just time spent in education.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
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.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
To examine oneself makes good use of sight.
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