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Humans Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand…
- All human activity is prompted by desire.
- Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be…
- Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
- Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of…
- He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life,…
- The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
- Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
- In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
- Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
- Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
- ... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
- An individual human existence should be like a river
- Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
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