“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.” — Lolly Daskal Copy Share Image
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more. — Edward Noyes Westcott Copy Share Image
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Doesn't take much to look human, two eyes, two ears, one nose, couple of limbs here and there, and you're done, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less… — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human… — Erik Griffin Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive. And though it may be… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Man is, by nature, a slave of numbers; by nurture, a slave of slaves.” — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
