“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.”
“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”
“There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.”
“I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?”
“It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.”
“And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.”
“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.”
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”