Best human-nature & fixed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”

Men Humans Wells Beautiful Given Social Process Results Beauty Human Nature Ugly Fixed Inclination

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.”

Needs Believe Humans Self Liberty Human Nature Concepts Determination Economics Fundamentals Fixed Divides Self Determination Pie Misunderstanding

Author:Paul Ryan

“The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.”

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.”

Way Facts Individual Given Social Acting Human Nature Exercise Capable Independent Fixed Manifestation Constraints

Author:Emile Durkheim

“Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”

Source: Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution

“I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.”

Men Humans War Fighting Energy Natural Greater Land Human Nature Rewards Fixed Urges Factories Ownership Entity Ownership Of Land

Author:Jessica Mitford

“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature”

Men Humans Hate Human Nature Charity Fixed Characteristics Receiving Benefactors

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring”

Humans Today Principles Psychology Human Nature Endure Customers Fixed Perpetual

Book:Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

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