Hobbes observed that philosophy first flourished where people had time: in great commonwealths with enough peace and prosperity to free some citizens from the daily struggle to survive. Thinking needs slack. Aristotle made a similar point, noting that mathematics began among Egyptian priests who had leisure. The Greek word for leisure, scholē, is the root of our word “school”. The line challenges a culture that equates worth with busyness. Unstructured time is not wasted time; it is where curiosity, questioning and new ideas are born. If you never stop, you never wonder.