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“Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.”

People Ifs Humans Ideas Enough Law Turns Evil Clear Modern Human Nature Opposites Ultimate Complicated Uncertainty Cooperation

Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”

Source: Science, Order, and Creativity

“You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.”

Men Humans Turns Human Nature Outraged

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”

Men Want Humans Religion Turns Nature Human Nature Angel Salvation Savior Tyrants Puppets Despots Hater Totalitarian Regimes

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.”

People Thinking Knows Humans Turns Lines Human Nature Conversation Bottom About Yourself Bottom Line Weird Things Forums Opinionated Squabbles

Author:Rick Owens

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

Might Faith Turns Belief Inspiring Attitude Human Nature Letting Go Positive Attitude

Author:Alan Watts

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Littles Turns Attitude Too Much Failing Human Nature Comfort Expectations Disappointment Schemes Calculations Start The Day Mansfield Park

Book:8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

Humans Turns Mistake Human Nature Judging Wind Blame Excuse Misdeeds Blame Someone

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.”

Ifs Should Humans Form Turns Human Nature Deserve Treats Treated Golden Consideration Interpretation Wrath Courtesy Golden Rule Satanic Do Unto Others Satanism Satanist

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.”

“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”

Men Kind Country Character Turns Cities Human Nature Civilization Ethics Tests Size Crops Census

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.”

Thinking Way Believe Persons Different Self Truth Turns Human Nature Absolutes Regard Fellows Threat Monsters Way Of Thinking Degrade Absolute Truth

Author:Octavio Paz

“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”

Way Humans Turns Nature Human Beings Human Nature Rounds Lovely Butterfly Caterpillars

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.”

“If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.”

Ifs Men Want Humans Reason Turns Wish Failing Human Nature Ought Machines

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.”

Men Needs Humans Problem Lasts Spiritual Turns Human Nature Danger Protection Classic Vitality Resorts Organisation

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.”

Thinking Believe Humans Heart God Body Care Turns Belief Conditions Human Nature Protection Surround Joyous Harmonious Poise Turn To God Health And Strength

Author:Emmet Fox

“It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.”

Want Believe Humans Has Beens Moments Turns Audience Human Nature Blame Errors Commit Performers Embarrassed Magician Scorn Trickery Gullibility Wizardry

Book:Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)

Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)