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Human Nature Quotes by Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
- . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand…
- To perceive is to suffer.
- Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
More Human Nature Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in… — James A. Baldwin
- In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the… — Bernard Baruch
- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach