Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There's always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we've seen in this pandemic that the vast majority… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
