“Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen,… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“...That, however, was not what our scholar was concerned to prove; for he maintained that the Great Wall alone would provide for… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically,… — Brynn Chapman Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“As Bill Gates argued at the World Economic Forum, “there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others,”… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
You can't fight human nature. Ego is going to get the best of everyone. You're going to think you can trust someone… — Julie Chen Copy Share Image
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter… — josh lanyon Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
