Human nature Quotes

“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”

“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."”

“Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.”

“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”

“It is human nature to avoid being consumed by hypotheticals until they are staring us squarely in the face.”

“Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.”

“Nature outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing nature begets pedantry. Art and nature well blent make a gentleman.”

“We're just like other people: We love to sing, we love to dance, we admire beautiful women. We are human, and sometimes very human.”

“The nature of man doesn’t change, and that’s reassuring, since we know the necessary conditions that can save him from himself.”

“In Aristotle the conception of human nature is perfectly sound; everything ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.”

“Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.”

“The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one is the healthy attitude of human nature.”

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.”

“You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back.”

“The fate of the Jewish people is the fate of Macbeth who stepped out of nature itself, clung to alien beings, and so in their service had to trample and slay everything holy in human nature.”

“Anarchists trust the best instincts of the people, and human nature dictates that where there is repression there will be resistance; where there is slavery, there will a struggle against it.”