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Human Nature Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
- The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to…
- Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical…
- Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
- War grows out of ordinary human nature.
- I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,…
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- 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
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- 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