Human nature Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Humans Irrational Passion Reason Seems
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.” — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
