Nature of man Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

— Bertrand Russell

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

— Bertrand Russell

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

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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

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The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority…

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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of…

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“In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.”

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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

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

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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

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It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of…

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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The…

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The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from…

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a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of…

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He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now…

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“Those who have a scientific outlook on human behaviour, moreover, find it impossible to label any action as ‘sin’; they realise that…

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Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where…

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He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…

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“Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments. Every community is exposed…

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The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching…

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“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,…

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Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws…

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“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be…

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If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end…

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It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this…

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“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either…

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Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or…

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

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It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my…

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“Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question, but above all in education.”

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“There can be no final goal for human institutions; the best are those that most encourage progress towards others still better. Without…

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It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less…

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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically…

— Bertrand Russell