H Quotes
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“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167”
Source: The Thirteen Problems
“Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.”
“Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.”
“Human nature is disposed to do good.”
“Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.”
Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
“Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.”
“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.”
“Human nature is fond of novelty.”
“Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art—and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations. One of these riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength to rise up and free themselves, first in spirit and then in body; while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly appear to lose the taste for freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery. Or again: why is it that societies which have been benumbed for half a century by lies they have been forced to swallow find within themselves a certain lucidity of heart and soul which enables them to see things in their true perspective and to perceive the real meaning of events; whereas societies with access to every kind of information suddenly plunge into lethargy, into a kind of mass blindness, a kind of voluntary self deception.”
Source: Warning to the West
“Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.”
“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”
“Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.”
“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.”
Source: Emotional Amoral Egoism: A Neurophilosophical Theory of Human Nature and its Universal Security Implications
“Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.”
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“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.”
“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”
“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”
Source: Conversations with Graham Greene
“Human nature is not evil. All pleasure is not wrong. All spontaneous desires are not selfish. The doctrine of original sin does not mean that human nature has been completely corrupted and that man’s freedom is always inclined to sin. Man is neither a devil nor an angel. He is not a pure spirit, but a being of flesh and spirit, subject to error and malice, but basically inclined to seek truth and goodness. He is, indeed, a sinner: but his heart responds to love and grace. It also responds to the goodness and to the need of his fellow man.”
Source: Life and Holiness [Paperback] [1969] (Author) Thomas Merton
“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more
“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“Human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse.”
“Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring”
Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter
“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America
“Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.”
Source: A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography
“Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.”
“Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.”
Source: Stella of the North
“Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.”
“Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.”
“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.”
“Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.”
“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.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.”
“Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.”
“Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.”
“Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.”
“Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“Human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.”
“Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.”
“Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“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.”
Source: Sermons
“Human nature is to justify a hundred reasons for his mistakes but he will never find a reason to correct his mistakes”
“Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.”
Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
“Human nature is too predictable to be amused by it all the time. Human nature is based on three rules of life: sex, money, and the possession that sex and money provide you with.”
Source: Psychopath's Diary Vol.II
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.”