Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“It's annoying how we blame ourselves, you know when John died, I was a wreck feeling that somehow I caused the accident,… — Felicity Porter Copy Share Image
For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level… — Don Edward Beck Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
“He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the actual crime itself. Judicial murder is immeasurably more horrible than one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of Unitarianism and Universalism, these traditions have advocated for the compatibility of science and religion. Both traditions encourage… — Mark W. Harris Copy Share Image
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“It’s a matter of curiosity—and anyone who says they are utterly indifferent to what their significant exes are doing is, in my… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
“...I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall… — Samuel P. Oliner Copy Share Image
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Life does not always give us favoritism even though we deserve it. We can't change who raise us, we can't change the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
So much to tell, so much left untold, so much to give, so much untaken, so much given, so little returned, so… — Geoff Dellow Copy Share Image
Our real human nature is revealed better when we are confronted with limited situations, and I think that life itself is an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Our fears have become a natural thing to us, we need to activate our faith and change our way of thinking! Don't… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Can this be in human nature! — Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human… — Mencius Copy Share Image
