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

Source: The Federalist

“The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.”

Needs Humans Important Seems Lying Passion Given Human Nature Periods Historical Confusion Etc Misunderstanding

Author:Erich Fromm

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

Humans May Law Natural Human Nature Bravery Brave Historical Lawyer

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.”

Humans Persons Age Law Certain Mistake Psychology Conditions Human Nature Regard Historical Permanent Human Life Rising Spheres Rise Above Transient Unchanging

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.”

Humans Human Nature Essentials Historical Insight Transitory

Book:Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

“Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.”

Humans Reality Spirit Human Nature Theory Historical Human Spirit Disregard Totality

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

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