When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are… — E.J. Dionne Jr Copy Share Image
“Human nature and behavior cause action, but through action an attempt is made to change attitude.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Another war is always coming Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human… — Mitchell David Copy Share Image
“Once you choose to raise your own awareness, you will have done the most you can to defeat the dark side of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I see the Goddess as incorporating the full spectrum of existence, not just what we call ‘the feminine.’ The latter is… — Hallie Iglehart Auste Copy Share Image
“Blonde hair and black hair are the two poles of human nature. Black hair signifies virility, courage, frankness, activity, whereas blonde hair… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
“Sacraments derive their origin from, and owe their institution to, Christ, not only as God, but also as man. He is the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“discrimination had to be justified by “scientific” evidence showing that human nature differs according to age, gender, and “race.” Until the 1700s,… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing… — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Well Hello Halo! It is human nature for us to make generalized judgments about a person using only a couple of traits.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
“Visions are projections of one's fundamental beliefs and assumptions about human nature, technology, economics, science, politics, art, ethics, and the like. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“entrance of the Rev. Clement Sclater -- the minister of her parish, recently appointed. He was a man between young and middle-aged,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“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
