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

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.”

Humans Two Speak Common Century Human Nature Havens Nonsense Common Denominator

Author:Frederick Rolfe

“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”

“While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.”

Feels Firsts Different Seems Passion Speak Emotion Human Nature Beats Command Pulse

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.”

Ifs World Humans Lost Speak Human Nature Divine Agility

Author:Novalis

“I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.”

“Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.”

“I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.”

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Author:Alan Bishop

“Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.”

Years Humans War Today Christian Moving Fighting Speak Enjoy Dog Human Nature Bears Empathy Years Ago Horse Jew Vegan Racing Pits Expectancy Life Expectancy Speak Less

Author:Frank Schaeffer

“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”

Ifs Speak Human Nature

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.”

Thinking Want Trying Humans Different Hate Names Speak Language Land Human Nature Color Resources Aspect Okay Creator Different Languages Different Colors Different Names

Author:John Denver

“Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.”

“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.”

Humans Has Beens Names Speak Poor Greater Human Nature Crime Fool Kings Weakness Committed Horrible Anarchy Definite Wickedness Policemen Insistence Charlatans

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?”

Humans Character Speak Space Animal Study Human Nature Fields Habit Transformation Forests Useless Soil Anarchy Appetite Torn Submission Captivity Caged Burroughs

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”

Men Humans Heart Stills Past Speak Change Human Nature Mouths Independence Slavery Compromise Abundance Can Not Declaration Extensions Declaration Of Independence Missouri

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition”

Humans Wells Doe Real Life Is Speak Accepting Atheism Human Nature Possibility Succeed Ambition Myth Real Life Superstitions Shields Ups & Downs

Book:Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.”

People Ifs Humans Enough Speak Powerful Human Nature Communication Subservient

Author:Michael Caine

“The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?”

Humans Heart Soul Today Speak Space Greater Human Nature Weakness Prison Wounded Definite Submission Wickedness Insistence Caged Charlatans

Author:Emma Goldman

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