“Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories of constrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of human nature, I… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
The first amendent only protects you form the government not me so you better hope whatever you say won't reach me... — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
When there's an opportunity knocking on your door, do not be afraid to answer it. By having the courage to take risks,… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.” — Sarah Castille Copy Share Image
“Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.” — William Bernstein Copy Share Image
“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
“we often envy our own abilities to escape -- as even in daydreams we find reason for an end." from Human Nature” — Tarringo T. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all… — Deirdre McCloskey Copy Share Image
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image