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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. -- Adam Smith
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. -- Stephen Hawking
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. -- Tom Hiddleston
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. -- Dale Carnegie
Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl. -- Stephen King
Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans~? -- Drats
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. -- Arundhati Roy
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". -- Stefan Molyneux
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. -- David Hume
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. -- George Washington
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. -- George Mason
Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave. -- Kirk Chisholm
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy. -- Jessica Mitford
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. -- Albert Einstein
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. -- Stendhal
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- Carl Jung
Our life is what our thoughts make it. -- Marcus Aurelius
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -- Mark Twain
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- James Madison
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a great deal of human nature in man. -- Charles Kingsley
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. -- Taylor Caldwell
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. -- Xun Zi
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. -- William James
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. -- Virginia Woolf
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. -- Orson Welles
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. -- Denis Diderot
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. -- Phyllis Schlafly
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly. -- Angelina Jolie
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. -- Alexander Hamilton
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. -- Steven Pinker
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. -- Dale Carnegie
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. -- Harriet Martineau
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. -- Joseph Butler
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -- Billie Holiday
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders. -- Kevin Mitnick
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. -- Jesse Ventura
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. -- Natalie Dormer
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. -- Plato
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? -- Saint Bernard
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes. -- Frans de Waal
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -- e. e. cummings
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. -- Alan Greenspan
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. -- Edward Thorndike
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. -- Alexander Hamilton
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human nature craves novelty. -- Pliny the Elder
Human-nature will not change. -- Abraham Lincoln
Envy is human nature. -- Monica Bellucci
Human nature fascinates me. -- Rush Limbaugh
Nature is not human hearted. -- Laozi
Intelligence rarely trumps human nature. -- Travis Luedke
Nature is not human hearted. -- Laozi
Amiable weaknesses of human nature. -- Edward Gibbon
Human nature is all alike. -- Mark Twain
I'm an advocate of human nature. -- Jaron Lanier
Human nature is fond of novelty. -- Pliny the Elder
I'm not sorry, it's human nature. -- Madonna Ciccone
Human beings are curious by nature. -- Aristotle
Human nature is what Heaven supplies. -- Xun Zi
Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations. -- Toba Beta
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. -- Susan Cain
It is human nature to strive. -- Temple Grandin
Knowing comedy is knowing human nature. -- Patton Oswalt
Human reason is by nature architectonic. -- Immanuel Kant
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation. -- Mason Cooley
I photograph Nature, which includes human beings. -- Freeman Patterson
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate. -- Fred Singer
Communism is in conflict with human nature. -- Ernest Renan
Imitation is a necessity of human nature. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I can't legislate to change human nature. -- John Major
Christ is God clothed with human nature. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Human nature is disposed to do good. -- Mencius
I'm a big believer in human nature. -- Robert Agostinelli
War grows out of ordinary human nature. -- Bertrand Russell
Human nature is above all things lazy. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Human nature is not of itself vicious. -- Thomas Paine
Human nature is a work in progress. -- Nick Bostrom
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. -- Dale Carnegie
Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless... -- Laozi
Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. -- Henry David Thoreau
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature. -- W. H. Auden
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. -- Edmund Burke
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature. -- Francis Bacon
That's human nature - the ups and downs. -- Jami Gertz
People want to typecast you; it's human nature. -- Stacy Keach
Law is born from despair of human nature. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Human nature is the same in all professions. -- Laurence Sterne
Habit is the deepest law of human nature -- Thomas Carlyle
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. -- Benjamin Franklin
Nature pulls one way and human nature another. -- E. M. Forster
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer -- John Keats
The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. -- Julius Charles Hare
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated. -- William James
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. -- Walter Savage Landor
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever, -- Evgeny Morozov
You can't change laws without first changing human nature. -- Neal Shusterman
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. -- Mason Cooley
Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever. -- Evgeny Morozov
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. -- E. M. Forster
English majors understand human nature better than economists do. -- Jane Smiley
Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. -- Edward Abbey
What we call human nature, is actually human habit. -- Jewel
War is not human nature. It is a habit. -- Gregg Braden
But what is art other than revealing human nature? -- Marina Abramovic
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. -- Nikolas Schreck
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. -- Stephen King

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