Surely you have to be idle to philosophise? : )
And yet he produced 'Principia Mathematica' and was jailed for being conscientious objector in WW1. Can't seem to locate details about his jail term, but am suspicious that he decided to do some thinking in jail .. only kiddin' :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
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