Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. Votes: 0
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Votes: 0
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. Votes: 0
I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances. Votes: 0
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion. Votes: 0
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. Votes: 0
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. Votes: 0
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do. Votes: 0
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. Votes: 0
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. Votes: 0
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system. Votes: 0
Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature. Votes: 0
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. Votes: 0
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. Votes: 0
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference. Votes: 0
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Votes: 0
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for. Votes: 0
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. Votes: 0
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. Votes: 0
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this. Votes: 0
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. Votes: 0
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. Votes: 0
We must remember that knowledge of oneâs own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. Votes: 0
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. Votes: 0
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. Votes: 0
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy. Votes: 0
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. Votes: 0
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. Votes: 0
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. Votes: 0
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. Votes: 0
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed. Votes: 0
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. Votes: 0
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world Votes: 0
It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably. Votes: 0
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. Votes: 0
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us. Votes: 0
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. Votes: 0
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. Votes: 0
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them. Votes: 0
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories! Votes: 0
Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future... Votes: 0
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. Votes: 0
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. Votes: 0
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. Votes: 0
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. Votes: 0
Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature. Votes: 0
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. Votes: 0
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature. Votes: 0
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. Votes: 0
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. Votes: 0
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Votes: 0
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. Votes: 0
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns. Votes: 0
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. Votes: 0
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. Votes: 0
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. Votes: 0
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. Votes: 0
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. Votes: 0
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. Votes: 0
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. Votes: 0
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. Votes: 0
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. Votes: 0
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! Votes: 0
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. Votes: 0
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life. Votes: 0
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Votes: 0
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. Votes: 0
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. Votes: 0
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature. Votes: 0
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something. Votes: 0
There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't. Votes: 0
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man Votes: 0
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. Votes: 0
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. Votes: 0
It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically. Votes: 0
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. Votes: 0
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature. Votes: 0
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. Votes: 0
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. Votes: 0
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. Votes: 0
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life. Votes: 0
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating. Votes: 0
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. Votes: 0
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. Votes: 0
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them Votes: 0
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. Votes: 0
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. Votes: 0
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. Votes: 0
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. Votes: 0
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. Votes: 0
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. Votes: 0
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. Votes: 0
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. Votes: 0
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life. Votes: 0
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. Votes: 0
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor. Votes: 0
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature. Votes: 0
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. Votes: 0
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human. Votes: 0
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature. Votes: 0
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! Votes: 0
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. Votes: 0
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. Votes: 0
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. Votes: 0
For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated. Votes: 0
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. Votes: 0
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. Votes: 0
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Votes: 0
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example. Votes: 0
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates. Votes: 0
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. Votes: 0
There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap Votes: 0
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. Votes: 0
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature. Votes: 0
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. Votes: 0
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence. Votes: 0
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed. Votes: 0
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature. Votes: 0
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. Votes: 0
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths. Votes: 0
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. Votes: 0
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. Votes: 0
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. Votes: 0
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether. Votes: 0
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Votes: 0
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. Votes: 0
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. Votes: 0
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes. Votes: 0
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. Votes: 0
Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001) Votes: 0
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes. Votes: 0
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? Votes: 0
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. Votes: 0
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. Votes: 0
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become. Votes: 0
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. Votes: 0
It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are. Votes: 0
Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature. Votes: 0
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. Votes: 0
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. Votes: 0
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. Votes: 0
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature. Votes: 0
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment. Votes: 0
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Votes: 0
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. Votes: 0
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. Votes: 0
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. Votes: 0
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Votes: 0
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian. Votes: 0
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Votes: 0
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. Votes: 0
The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail. Votes: 0
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. Votes: 0
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. Votes: 0
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow. Votes: 0
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Votes: 0
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. Votes: 0
Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility. Votes: 0
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. Votes: 0
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature. Votes: 0
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! Votes: 0
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Votes: 0
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality. Votes: 0
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth. Votes: 0
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature. Votes: 0
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Votes: 0
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting. Votes: 0
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day. Votes: 0
Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature. Votes: 0
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. Votes: 0
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package. Votes: 0
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature. Votes: 0
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions. Votes: 0
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine. Votes: 0
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. Votes: 0
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. Votes: 0
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part. Votes: 0
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. Votes: 0
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 0
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 0
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. Votes: 0
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy. Votes: 0
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. Votes: 0
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. Votes: 0
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. Votes: 0
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Votes: 0
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. Votes: 0
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. Votes: 0
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. Votes: 0
You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne Votes: 0
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind Votes: 0
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ... Votes: 0
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. Votes: 0
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Votes: 0
With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men. Votes: 0
Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature. Votes: 0
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Votes: 0
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. Votes: 0
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature. Votes: 0
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. Votes: 0
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals. Votes: 0
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition, Votes: 0
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross. Votes: 0
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good. Votes: 0
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? Votes: 0
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well. Votes: 0
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. Votes: 0
One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature Votes: 0
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'. Votes: 0
We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced. Votes: 0
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Votes: 0
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it. Votes: 0
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind. Votes: 0
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal. Votes: 0
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. Votes: 0
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways. Votes: 0
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. Votes: 0
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. Votes: 0
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 0
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. Votes: 0
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. Votes: 0
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. Votes: 0
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. Votes: 0
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language. Votes: 0
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures. Votes: 0
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world. Votes: 0
Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly. Votes: 0
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. Votes: 0
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. Votes: 0
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. Votes: 0
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium. Votes: 0
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. Votes: 0
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it. Votes: 0
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. Votes: 0
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. Votes: 0
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. Votes: 0
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again. Votes: 0
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. Votes: 0
Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed. Votes: 0
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Votes: 0
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances. Votes: 0
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Votes: 0
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. Votes: 0
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. Votes: 0
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. Votes: 0
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. Votes: 0
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure. Votes: 0
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man. Votes: 0
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature. Votes: 0
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well Votes: 0
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him. Votes: 0
The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature. Votes: 0
It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else. Votes: 0
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. Votes: 0
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore! Votes: 0
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. Votes: 0
As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells. Votes: 0
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. Votes: 0
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. Votes: 0
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. Votes: 0
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy"love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit. Votes: 0
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring Votes: 0
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. Votes: 0
We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. Votes: 0
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! Votes: 0
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. Votes: 0
I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. Votes: 0
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus. Votes: 0
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment. Votes: 0
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Votes: 0
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Votes: 0
There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. Votes: 0
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine. Votes: 0
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. Votes: 0
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words. Votes: 0
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager). Votes: 0
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories. Votes: 0
When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen. Votes: 0
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. Votes: 0
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others"both human and animal. Votes: 0
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. Votes: 0
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. Votes: 0
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. Votes: 0
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature. Votes: 0
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity. Votes: 0
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right. Votes: 0
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. Votes: 0
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. Votes: 0
It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it. Votes: 0
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. Votes: 0
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual. Votes: 0
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. Votes: 0
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. Votes: 0
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. Votes: 0
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds. Votes: 0
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. Votes: 0
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel Votes: 0
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action. Votes: 0
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Votes: 0
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. Votes: 0
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. Votes: 0
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Votes: 0
Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you." Votes: 0
Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people. Votes: 0
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow. Votes: 0
It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential. Votes: 0
What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode. Votes: 0
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him. Votes: 0
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about. Votes: 0
The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable. Votes: 0
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. Votes: 0
He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. Votes: 0
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Votes: 0
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. Votes: 0
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature. Votes: 0
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. Votes: 0
There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works. Votes: 0
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. Votes: 0
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty. Votes: 0
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity. Votes: 0
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 0
The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves. Votes: 0
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. Votes: 0
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. Votes: 0
Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time. Votes: 0
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts. Votes: 0
If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. Votes: 0
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. Votes: 0
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? Votes: 0
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.' Votes: 0
Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit. Votes: 0
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. Votes: 0
Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world. Votes: 0
The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. Votes: 0
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for. Votes: 0
It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants? Votes: 0
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other. Votes: 0
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. Votes: 0
If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us. Votes: 0
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber. Votes: 0
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it. Votes: 0
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives. Votes: 0
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. Votes: 0
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. Votes: 0
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease. Votes: 0
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. Votes: 0
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it. Votes: 0
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration. Votes: 0
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Votes: 0
It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique. Votes: 0
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them. Votes: 0
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. Votes: 0
Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything. Votes: 0
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad. Votes: 0
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés. Votes: 0
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor. Votes: 0
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. Votes: 0
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions. Votes: 0
...human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory... Votes: 0
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments. Votes: 0
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. Votes: 0
Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level. Votes: 0
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature. Votes: 0
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. Votes: 0
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution. Votes: 0
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. Votes: 0
Not because we think that it's still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future. Votes: 0