Character Quote by Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.”

— Christine Kinealy

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.”

— Niall Ferguson

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Worldly Nature means complete weakness.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

— Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

“With creation and function came peace. With mental fortitude came strength and the banishment of weakness.”

— Nick Kyme

“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality,…

— William Faulkner

“Every human being has both sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to regress backward,…

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

— Blaise Pascal

“We are human, we are irrational, we have foibles, and the power of the mind over the body is greater than anything you have…

— Ben Goldacre