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“...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.”

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Book:Homilies on Genesis

Source: Homilies on Genesis

“Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”

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Book:Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.”

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Author:Edwin S. Shneidman

“Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a great master in the very science of human nature, which he pretends to explain, or very knowing in what is naturally satisfactory to the mind of man.”

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Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“He is: frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.”

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Book:The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know. Satisfying the NEED TO KNOW, be it by really knowing, by thinking we know or by believing we know, is very comforting for man. Be it by “direct” knowledge, Be it by “emotional” knowledge, Be it by “gut-felt” knowledge, Be it by “spiritual” knowledge, Be it by “transcendental” knowledge, Be it by “meditative” knowledge, Be it by “inspiration”, Be it by “revelation”, Be it knowing by faith or Be it by understanding, We definitely are one humanity under “need to know”.”

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Book:The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity

Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity