Nature of man Quotes · Page 311

Is it in our human nature that when we men are tracking down a girl, we search our self to find all…

— Glen Rambharack

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that…

— Walter Scott

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…

— Chris Abani

“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable…

— Elizabeth Goudge

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted…

— Mitch Albom

The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an…

— Michael Jackson

“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is…

— Witold Gombrowicz

“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

— Aldous Huxley

“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was…

— Salman Rushdie

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.…

— Irvin D. Yalom

There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for…

— David E. Cooper

Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“it seemed clear that these ordinary-looking business-like men are responsible for acts which will remain when their red cheeks and top hats…

— Virginia Woolf

I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human…

— Jenna Coleman

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb…

— Chinua Achebe

We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many…

— Stephenie Meyer

This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value…

— Walter Russell

“Kali with the most primal form of nature, before culture and outside culture, unaffected by rules and opinions of humanity. She is…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

By opposing the human in the man and thus activating the inhuman does nothing else than dehumanize that man by further alienating…

— Sorin Cerin

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like…

— Alan Cooper

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a…

— Edmund Burke

“...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much…

— Lisa Lowe

“All of it. Especially the arrogant notion that the world will end just because humans might not make it through this century.…

— Joe Hill

It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat;…

— Nick Bilton

“When Page describes Google reshaping the future of humanity, this isn’t simply a description of the convenience it provides; what it aims…

— Franklin Foer

“I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they…

— Dee Williams

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a…

— Pearl S Buck

“In this world, progress is for our descendants alone. They will have more of a chance than we did. All the beautiful…

— Eliot Weinberger

“It is said that he had arrived at that last stage of human depravity, when cruelty becomes pleasing for its own sake,…

— Anonymous

“Books are supposed to give a helping hand to humanity’s progress, not to instruct humanity how to progress. Plato wrote his books…

— Abhijit Naskar

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to…

— Felix Dodds

“Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a…

— David Mitchell

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out…

— Octavia Butler

“The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined.…

— Paulette Jiles

“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called…

— Gary Paulsen