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Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Degrees, Lives Of Others
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.445, Psychology Press

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Bertrand Russell
Discipline, Desire, Needs
Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Bertrand Russell
Powerful, Passion, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.66, Psychology Press

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Bertrand Russell
Spring, Desire, Essentials
Bertrand Russell (1975). “The conquest of happiness”

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Humans, Human Activity
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.160, Routledge

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

Bertrand Russell
Powerful, Boredom, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.3, Routledge

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.

Bertrand Russell
Children, Desire, Dry
Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.142, Booklassic

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Desire, Action
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.172, Routledge

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Desire, Proportion
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.39, Psychology Press

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell
Freedom, Fear, Desire
Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Body, Action
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Desire, Duty

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Bertrand Russell
Envy, Desire, May
"The Conquest of Happiness".

Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.

Bertrand Russell
Mean, Desire, Use
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.98, Routledge

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Quests, Belief
Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

Bertrand Russell
Heart, Desire, Fundamentals

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Bertrand Russell
Political, Desire, Events
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.447, Routledge

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Bertrand Russell
Imagination, Effort, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2016). “Political Ideals”, p.16, Bertrand Russell

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Bertrand Russell
Catholic, Church, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.43, Routledge

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

Bertrand Russell
Mistake, Practice, Desire
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Bertrand Russell
Desire, Submission, Righteous Indignation
Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

Bertrand Russell
Order, Self, Desire

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