Best human-beings & human-nature Quotes

“We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.”

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Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.”

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Book:Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

Source: Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

“My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.”

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Author:Paddy Considine

“I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.”

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Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.”

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Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”

“It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.”

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Author:Malala Yousafzai

“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.”

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Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

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