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Human Nature Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
- When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
- My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
- Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
- Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
- Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
- With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
- Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
- The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and…
- The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
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