Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Those which can be experienced in the present life, can of course, be no others than such as human nature in the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Its hard trying to be happy everyday all day. It not easy to carry on once you have been hurt broken beaten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment focused attention on Glasgow and Edinburgh as centres of intellectual activity. The Scottish Enlightenment was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Sometimes life itself has its turns on us as humans. Parts of it which influence your levels of every day happiness can… — Dav Mar Copy Share Image
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to constantly reach out for something to tether oneself to, but it's the fool who cannot tell what… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It seems that human nature is such that we balk at changing until things get really bad and we’re so uncomfortable that… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
Dont let your ears witness what your eyes didnt see, dont let your mouth speak what your heart doesnt feel. We are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over… — John Ferling Copy Share Image
If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Possibly humans can exist without actually having to fight. But, many of us have chosen to fight. For what reason? To protect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance, shape, air, or other minute… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Writers who have delved into human nature, ancient masters of strategy, historians of human stupidity and folly, kings and queens who have… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but… — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
I try to love my neighbor as myself but I'm not trying to be a people pleaser. Sometimes that's hard, because my… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My nature, My personality; who I am. It all came to me last night, I'm a shark. Unlike others who can fly… — Jorvan Robinson Copy Share Image
![“It seems that human nature is such that we balk at changing until things get really bad and we’re so uncomfortable that we can no longer go on with business as usual. This is as true for an individual as it is for a society. [...] My message is: Why wait? We can learn and change in a state of pain…” quote by Joe Dispenza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/944/joe-dispenza-13939_business_it-seems-that-human-nature-is-such-that_1205155.jpg)
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