Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to… — Jonas Eriksson Copy Share Image
“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The trouble with purging the school curriculum of religious knowledge is that ultimate questions cannot be answered without reference to religious beliefs… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to… — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
“We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about… — DeiAmor Verus Copy Share Image
“schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture… — David Brin Copy Share Image
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges… — Thomas Frey Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the… — Paul J. McAuley Copy Share Image
That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never… — ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Human nature doesn’t change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Maybe human beings are programmed to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
