Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a tactile person to enjoy an embrace or a touch of the hand - it's basic human… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is one thing I've learned about people: they don't get that mean and nasty overnight. It's not human nature. But if… — Jennifer Mathieu Copy Share Image
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Your eyes still says you trust your friend. Show me how it looks like when its violated and twisted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Doing something without the intention of being appreciated for the work is the real attribute of human nature. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better. — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able… — Charles Deems Copy Share Image
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
