Look back on Time, with kindly eyes - He doubtless did his…

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

— Emily Dickinson

The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops…

— Ayn Rand

Time is a kindly God.

— Sophocles

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

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see…

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Arthur Graham

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

— John Dewey

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

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre