Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
“Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden. (Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Always be a student and keep learning, don't think you know too much and be humble.” — Dr. Poison King Copy Share Image
“We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“An open relationship allows you to be a better lover to yourself as well as to others. It opens your perception and… — Wendy-O Matik Copy Share Image
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person… — Kelleen Goerlitz Copy Share Image
As humans we all make mistakes, factors we have no control over impact our lives daily, recognizing that mistakes are an inevitable… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that the beautiful Christian metaphor “salvation” has come to be so hackneyed and therefore so despised. It has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Our most important relationships are neither cooperative nor competitive. Instead, they are both. Rather than choosing a single course of action, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us… — John Behr Copy Share Image
“I think it's human nature to blame yourself. When things fuck up in life, you always want to find a reason for… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“It’s human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Am completely fade up with this so called human nature thing coz its controlling me, its the reality yet I want to… — Jacent Nakato Copy Share Image
I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature. — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“People can. And do. And do it all the time. Fallibility is a close friend of mine.” — J.M. Lawler Copy Share Image
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal,… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.” — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image