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Instinct Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
- Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
- The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
- By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to…
- Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will…
- Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
- The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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