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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
— Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy
Tagged: Ignorance, Philosophy, Education, School, Knowledge, Growing Pains, Intelligence
“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”
— Bertrand Russell, First Love Quotes and Sayings, Cute Short Status About First Love - Short Status Quotes
Tagged: Love, First Love
“The poets have lamented the power of time to sweep away every object of their love.”
— Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy
Tagged: Poetry, Art, Love, Heartbreak
“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ”
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage And Morals
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Passion, Making Love
“Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Anyone who has much to do with children knows how they are constantly performing some antic, and saying ‘Look at me.’ ‘Look at me’ is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart. It can take innumerable forms, from buffoonery to the pursuit of posthumous fame.”
— Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
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