H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.”
Source: THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF
“Human nature is what Heaven supplies.”
“Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.”
“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”
Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc
“Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she guessed.”
Source: Une vie
“Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.”
Source: Science and Philosophy
“Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.”
“Human nature makes us perpetually dissatisfied with our present condition. We want to improve the most important thing in our lives: ourselves. Our very neurochemical composition makes us want to perfect ourselves.”
“Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.”
“Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.”
“Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.”
“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.”
“Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.”
“Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.”
“Human nature scares the hell out of me.”
“Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.”
“Human nature tends to disbelieve strange phenomena that doesn’t align with constraints of conventional reality. Dismissing experiences as imagination or insanity is less complicated than understanding their spiritual implications.”
Source: Faith in the Inferno: The Development of a Baby Boomer's Spiritual Consciousness
“Human nature - the Thucydidean pantheon of fear, self-interest, and honor - makes for a world of incessant conflict and coercion.”
Source: The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
“Human nature towards the Truth weakens in heart while falsehood increases and the more it rises, the more powerful those in power become. The fact that man is fact of life should bring him to a recognition that the delusions of life and the opinions of others are of no power.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.”
Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
“Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.”
“Human nature was structured through the eons.
What our environment of persistent scarcity has done to us during all that time is undeniable; it has transformed a particular behavior that insures collective survival in situations of scarcity into our “default” or basic code of behavior in all situations.”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“Human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man.- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man”
Source: Upgrade
“Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.”
“Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.”
“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we have reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Isaac Newton and John Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.”
Source: Familiar Letters of John Adams & His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution
“Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”
Source: Happiness
“Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.”
Source: Kafka's
“Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.”
“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”
“Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."”
“Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.”
Source: Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]
“Human now exactly look like Aliens on the Earth with those Corona Space Suit, save Nature”
“Human of Revolution (The Sonnet)
Human of revolution is not a human of vengeance,
Human of evolution is not a human of recklessness.
If vengeance 'n recklessness ensured human rights,
The jungle would be the definition of kindness.
Let your blood boil in the course of justice 'n equality,
But don't become a monster in fighting monstrosity.
Let the prehistoric cycle of cruelty break with you,
So that humanity can dream beyond rights 'n dignity.
It's not about getting vengeance, or about getting even,
Justice begins with self-regulation, not law and order.
Can you tell right from wrong without involving law,
The day you do is the birth of actual, lasting order.
I say, revolution means defending without descending.
Hold their punches, hold your punches, 'n start dancing.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit.”
“Human+ operates both as a paradigm for understanding human-machine evolution and as a skill to be cultivated in practice.”
Source: The Platinum Workforce: How to Train and Hire for the 21st Century’s Industrial Transition
“Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.”
“Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.”
“Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.”
“Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.”
Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
“Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.”
“Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.”