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Nature Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
- But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
- 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…
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
- It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
- The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization…
- The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic…
- Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
- I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when…
- a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men…
- The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to…
- Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical…
- Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
- War grows out of ordinary human nature.
- I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,…
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…
- A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie…
- An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might…
- The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle