Human Nature Quotes - Page 6

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

Our lives teach us who we are.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Envy is human nature.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.