“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
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Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”
“Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.”
Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.”
“Our lives teach us who we are.”
Source: In good faith
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“English majors understand human nature better than economists do.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)
“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”
“Better not be at all than not be noble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Source: The Hobbit
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
Source: Aesop's fables