Nature of man Quote by Marcel Danesi

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we form is…

— Margaret R. Graver

“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally sound. Second,…

— Daniel Kahneman

I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with…

— Noam Chomsky

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of…

— Karen Armstrong

Any objectivity of a subject contains subjective views of the object.

— UEK Multimedia Artist

“...by choosing two aspects of a subject that appear to be in opposition, each can be examined in light of the other in order…

— David Mazzucchelli

“it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in the rational…

— Herman Bavinck

“[Objectivity] cannot exist without mental flexibility, since none of us is objective by nature. We all have opinions, the roots of which are spread…

— J. F. Blumrich

“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated…

— GE Paulus