Quote by Bertrand Russell
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Civilization
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Humankind
category

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

Category:
Humankind

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. – Author Unknown

Category:
Humankind

On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go in to work on a Saturday. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Humankind

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Humankind

Random Quotes

You cant run a business or anything else on a theory. – Harold S. Geneen

Category:
Business

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. – William Blake

Category:
Nature

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. – Ashley Montagu

Category:
Women

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. – William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1822

Category:
Conformity