“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Never try to change the nature of anyone in your life, you will loose respect and eventually the person.” — Ashar Siddiqui Copy Share Image
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“ewell had known she was innocent about the ways of the world, and even about human nature — but downright” — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own.… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself)… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition.… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image