Effects Quote by Bertrand Russell

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the…

— James Stephens

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

— Wilhelm Reich

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity:…

— Lewis Mumford

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

— Mason Cooley

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately…

— Russell Brand

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving…

— Bertrand Russell

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral…

— R. Austin Freeman

“But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against…

— Yuval Noah Harari

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of…

— Sigrid Undset

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre