the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good…

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…

— Emily Dickinson

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

— John Dewey

“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower…

— Julius Evola

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces…

— David Bohm

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…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.”

— Arthur Graham

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott

“As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another…

— Peter F. Hamilton

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my…

— G.K. Chesterton