“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“I find a naturalistic understanding of human nature to be indispensable to leading a wise and mature life, and it is often… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In my view, we are all called to explore the very essence of our human nature in order to find the unique… — Lewis Perkins Copy Share Image
To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and… — Jean Bethke Elshtain Copy Share Image
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Oamenii comunica intre ei prin semne conventionale si astfel si-au facut iluzia desarta ca se si inteleg. In realitate fiecare atribuie celorlalti… — Liviu Rebreanu Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal quality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Ultimately...woman's equality is not derived from any theory of human nature but rather from concepts of justice, equality and the integrity of… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — 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
“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
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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