“Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight. — Dan Totheroh Copy Share Image
“The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.” — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well… — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Humanity has advanced in technology, not human nature. We treat each other just as bad today as we did 2000 years ago. — Drew Istotle Copy Share Image
“Humans are the only ones who refuse to co-sleep with their newborns. All other mammals do it, and in a loving manner.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“..few spectacles are more instructive than a child bullying another. This behavior is not taught and cannot be suppressed. Pick a period… — Petronius Jablonski Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To many of us run from our problems, rather than facing them head on. As humans we are not made to handle… — Brooke T Ryman Copy Share Image
“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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