Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“One of the most enjoyable parts of being a writer is being able to take the darker side of human nature and… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Sacraments derive their origin from, and owe their institution to, Christ, not only as God, but also as man. He is the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The stories we hear daily tell us that we are not good enough to rise to our environmental moment. For a long… — Alice Irene Whittaker Copy Share Image
“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“many people who suffer difficult losses exhibit a natural resilience. They hurt deeply, but the hurt passes, and relatively soon after the… — George A. Bonanno Copy Share Image
“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their… — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“universe.” Tan’elKoth’s tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. “Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“This preoccupation with the classics was the happiest thing that could have befallen me. It gave me a standard of values. To… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We… — Gerald of Wales Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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“He smirked. “Communism? Of course not. The Soviet Union fell because communism did not understand human nature. People act in their self-interest.… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The brilliant rationalist had encountered a central, frustrating tenet of human nature: behavior change is hard. The cleverest engineer or economist or… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied… — J.K. Huysmans Copy Share Image
“ The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to… — R. Austin Freeman Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
“Our diseases merely act as amplifiers for our human nature, turning up the volume of our attachments and suffering. In that regard,… — Mel Ash Copy Share Image
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“There are certain things which are human nature," he asserted with an owl-like look, "which always have been and always will be,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another war is always coming Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human… — Mitchell David Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I think it's good to have your own selfish interests, whether it's liking chocolate ice cream or wanting a new car. It's… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
“I find a naturalistic understanding of human nature to be indispensable to leading a wise and mature life, and it is often… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested… — John Adams Copy Share Image