Nature Of Man Quotes
72 Nature Of Man quotes by 64 unique authors
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Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society.…
— Unknown Author
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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
— Sri Aurobindo
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The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is…
— Ernest Holmes
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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
— Charles Darwin
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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
— Murray Rothbard
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according…
— James Madison
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It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
— Fred Hoyle
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other…
— Walter Raleigh
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In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
— James Madison
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly…
— Allan McLeod Cormack
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Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does…
— Walter Bagehot
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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or…
— Brian Aldiss
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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
— D.B.C. Pierre
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Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
— Ludwig von Mises
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
— Edwin Forrest
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.…
— C. Wright Mills
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