The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“the great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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