“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
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
“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception… — William James Copy Share Image
“Orion says it’s human nature.” It’s not, I think. “It’s not,” Victria says. I look at her, surprised. “If it was, I’d… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't have… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the actual crime itself. Judicial murder is immeasurably more horrible than one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We have characteristics we're born with, that are molded by the lives we live. And so to have a psychologically engaged show,… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Anyone wanting to get a sense of human nature in, say, the Bronze Age can do no better than to excavate among… — David P. Barash Copy Share Image
Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man… It is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no… — Xun Kuang Copy Share Image
“Rousseau.—Although this politician, the paramount authority of the Democrats, makes the social edifice rest upon the general will, no one has so… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation'… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world… — Lynda Williams Copy Share Image
Human heart is like the reflection on the waters surface, the mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
