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Human Nature Quotes by David Hume
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
- I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a…
- A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
- No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and…
- And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
- Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find…
- As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning…
- We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our…
- History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
- Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief…
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