“I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.” WorldHumansStuffViewsEmotionTalkingHuman NaturePolicyMaterialsBehaviorDeeperConclusionShallowMaterial Things Author:David Brooks
“Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.” HumansSpiritualWonderTechnologyHuman NatureMaterialsBalanceDemandResponseRejectedNew Technology Author:John Naisbitt
“There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.” WorldWantHumansTwoBookWarRealityJobsFacesSpiritualHuman NatureMaterialsMaterial WorldTwo Worlds Author:John Eldredge
“Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.” IfsHumansKindAbleSpiritualValuesWishGoalHuman BeingsHuman NatureMaterialsLimitsRaisesStriveWorthyFulfillmentHarmoniousSpiritual Values Author:Albert Einstein
“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
“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.” GivingHumansTwoBodyEnergyHuman NatureMaterialsBirthFlowPainfulBlissEstrangement Author:Adrienne Rich
“Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.” HumansMeanScienceEducationHuman NatureMaterialsDiscoveryInstitutionsEthicalFarmersScholarProvidenceFoundersMachineryInventorTheologicalBenevolentRaw MaterialsArtisansJurists Book:The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men Source: The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men