“I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“You look into it , the object flies off into air , your reasons evaporate , the criminal is not to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn’t like, and why,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Doubt them. Question them, suspect them¦and take a good, long look into their hearts. Humans are the kind of beings who cant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get… — F.E. Higgins Copy Share Image
My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Salt Has A Unique Nature, Its Presence Was Not Being Felt, But Its Absence Makes Things TASTELESS. Make Your Absence Noticable, Be… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a… — Herbert Gold 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
“He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had… — Takayuki Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
“if our conception of human nature is to be altered, it must be by means of truths conforming to the canons of… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“the most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the Bible . . . faith in God, faith in other… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
In a world like that, there would be no need for love anymore either. If everyone were perfect, there would be no… — The World God Only Knows Copy Share Image