“Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
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“To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.”
“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”
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
“Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.”
Source: The Case For Mars
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.”
“What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.”
“There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”
Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
“Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Les Belles Images
“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.”
“Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript
Source: Tugman's Passage
Source: In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
Source: The Courage to Create
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”
Source: A Fairy Tale of New York
Source: Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
“The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.”
“I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.”