Humans Quotes by Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

— Bertrand Russell

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

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The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

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An individual human existence should be like a river

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

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

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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.

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Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which…

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

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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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I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation…

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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs…

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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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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…

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My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source…

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The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have…

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In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find…

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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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The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.…

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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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War grows out of ordinary human nature.

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

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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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