Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about sex, instinct, love, people
Quotes by Bertrand Russell
23 quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell - british philosopher
Was born on 18 may 1872.
Died on 02 feb 1970, at 97 years old.
Died on 02 feb 1970, at 97 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about good luck, quiet, joy, happiness, life
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about life, adventure
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about admiration, ideology, age, olderness, power
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about democracy, man, people
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about origin, art, magic
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about fear, superstitions, cruelty, beginning, wisdom
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, time, life
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, obstacles
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, opinion
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about mathematics, human imperfections, god, nothing, love
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about liberty, rightness
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about life, victims, competition, criminals, nothing
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about love, solitude, sex, man
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about man, faith, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about homeland, patriotism
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Quote by Bertrand Russell about reason, force, police
