Folly Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Human race Humans Inspirational Nature of man Race
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead--for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Humanity thinks it needs to constantly evolve so that maybe someday, old age and sickness will be eradicated from existence. However, our folly isnt… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates — H. Bentley Glass 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
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
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