“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.” PeopleHumansDoeTogetherIndividualBeliefGivenSinCreativeEnvironmentGroupsConditionsHuman NatureOvercomingErrorsOptimisticInevitableWorking TogetherMutualImperfectHuman ConditionRegulationMultitudesRestraintBe CreativeConstructiveMutual RespectTrusting People Author:Peter Senge
“Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that.” PeopleBelieveHumansKindUseTermCreativeHuman NatureAuthorityEvidenceBraveAbsenceDisasterGenerousFedsPremisesAnarchistResourcefulReally Pretty Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.” WayHumansKindSelfShowsSeemsFoundSoundBehindsCreativeHuman NaturePossibilityTypeOrdinaryMythAll KindsTheologianGreat Faith Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.” MenWorldInspirationalNeedsMindHumansImportantPurposeBrainCreativeHuman NatureMaterialsProductsUltimateInventionMasteryHuman NeedsMaterial WorldHuman Inventions Author:Nikola Tesla
“Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.” PeopleWorldMindHumansSeemsTurnsGivenCreativeTakenWorstHuman NatureStrangeGeniusOrdinaryLonelyIntelligentBrilliantLockedCagesStatus QuoOrdinary PeopleCreative PeopleBulliedOutcastPlaygroundsLocked Up Author:Ted Dekker
“There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.” LifeInspirationalEarthWomenLinesActingCreativeHuman NatureFoolIdiotLeapFoolishnessChances AreRisk-takingWhen In DoubtFools And FoolishnessChance And RiskMaking A Fool Of Yourself Author:Cynthia Heimel
“Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.” HumansLittlesTodayHumanitySocialVoiceCreativeClearPiecesHeardFeminismEconomicStageTalentHuman NatureExpressionUniversalFeministOpeningWelcomeTriumphLoudExplorationPoolTraitsLiberatingAvenuesPostmodernism Author:E. O. Wilson
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.” HumansFactsRomanceLyingFallSocialCreativeHuman NatureSpeechEgoIncreaseDeedsContactFacultyIdealismNobilityFrictionWholeheartedly Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.” HumansIndividualGoalCreativeHuman NaturePersonalityChaosCosmosCollectivesAstrologyAlchemy Author:Dane Rudhyar
“The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.” PeopleMenHumansMovingSuccessCreativeFailingHuman NatureSucceedInsightArtistry Author:William Bernbach
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.” NeedsShouldHumansCreativeEffectsHuman NatureCreationPossibilityElementsInstitutionsFundamentalsCharacteristicsDecentInquiryArbitraryCreative Work Book:The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature