Bertrand Russell Quotes about Feelings

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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Bertrand Russell

Emotional, Giving, Feelings

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, Feelings, Doubt

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.124, Lulu.com

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

Bertrand Russell

Hysteria, Creating, Feelings

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

Bertrand Russell

Men, Fire, Feelings

Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Bertrand Russell

Essence, Feelings, Depth

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.9, Bertrand Russell

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed

Bertrand Russell

Men, Feelings, Lust

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Bertrand Russell

Passion, Feelings, Conflict

Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912. "The life of Bertrand Russell". Book by Ronald W. Clark, p. 174, 1975.

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

Bertrand Russell

Sex, Law, Feelings

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, Inspiration, Feelings

Bertrand Russell Quotes about Feelings

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