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Human Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in…
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
- We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote…
- The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or…
- Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized…
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.The being…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell