Human nature Quote by Jeremy Bentham

“We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibilities, but all constantly being destroyed, all coming to nothing. Nature…

— C.S. Lewis

“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we become conscious…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the former cultivates…

— David Brooks

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

“The amorality of nature is accepted, whether it takes the form of a monsoon, an elephant in musth, or a disease; but being subjected…

— Oliver Sacks

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

“In our subjective hindrance, we are nevertheless the objectively unhindered expression of nature as one moment transforms into the next.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk

“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,.…

— Aristotle