“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The ideals and objectives of yesterday was still ideals of today, but they lost some of their luster and even, as one… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The dread of a permanently wicked human nature takes two forms. One is a practical fear: that social reform is a waste… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“People can. And do. And do it all the time. Fallibility is a close friend of mine.” — J.M. Lawler Copy Share Image
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's human nature. First of all he likes to do work Which should be forbidden to work. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing,… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are very good at a particular game. Pick anything—chess, Street Fighter, poker—doesn’t matter. You play this game with friends all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image