Humans Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

— Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

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War grows out of ordinary human nature.

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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

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True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of…

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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

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Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human…

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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds…

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But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into…

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as…

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The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter…

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...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no…

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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It…

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It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have…

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I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and…

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Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable…

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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said…

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[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in…

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I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

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You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful…

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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,…

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There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and…

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An individual human existence should be like a river

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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

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Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending…

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The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to…

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Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

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God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

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The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

— Bertrand Russell