Common Quote by Georg Simmel

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

— Charles Kingsley

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security,…

— Bertrand Russell

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water…

— Mencius

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

— Mencius

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

— Marcus Aurelius

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

— Swami Vivekananda

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

— Aristotle

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

— Jostein Gaarder

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

— Henry Ward Beecher