Nature Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

— Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

— Bertrand Russell

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

— Bertrand Russell

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

— Bertrand Russell

“The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.”

— Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

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“The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

“It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our…

— Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children…

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death… Thought is subversive…

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“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

“Some of the men to whom Copernicus communicated his theory were German Lutherans, but when Luther came to know of it, he…

— Bertrand Russell

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and…

— Bertrand Russell

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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But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,…

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Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

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

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and…

— Bertrand Russell

“the great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned…

— Bertrand Russell

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis…

— Bertrand Russell

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined…

— Bertrand Russell