What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles;… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
“Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in… — Prince Augustus William of Prussia Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. As I have already said, religious fundamentalism… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...]… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Many people continue to say they are staunchly opposed to homosexuality; they reject and repudiate it, saying that it goes against human… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are,… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or… — James De Mille 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
A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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