English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Bertrand Russell Quotes

Bertrand Russell quote: "Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting..."

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Bertrand Russell

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. Studs Terkel
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. Peter Davison
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it. Eric Carr
Viktor Korchnoi quote: "I don't study; I create."
I don't study; I create. Viktor Korchnoi
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. Mary Oliver
Ellis Peters quote: "There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course..."
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. Ellis Peters
Winston Churchill quote: "I love to learn but I do not want to be taught"
I love to learn but I do not want to be taught Winston Churchill
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. Auberon Herbert
Yoko Ono quote: "I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music -..."
I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting. Yoko Ono
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' Bill Maher
John Lothrop Motley quote: "In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood,..."
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. John Lothrop Motley
George H. W. Bush quote: "You have to understand that people that are hurting are going..."
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize. George H. W. Bush
George McGovern quote: "The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. George McGovern
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. Nina Bawden