Human Nature Quotes - Page 15

• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

  Mireille Enos

  Focus, Secret, Want

  "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Order, Alive

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• But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

  Lucy Hale

  Lying, White, Here And There

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sorry, Philosophy, Humans

  "Song: "Human Nature" ("Bedtime Stories")". 1994.

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• People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

  Stacy Keach

  People, Want, Humans

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• Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Real, Tvs, Modern

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• Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Saint, Sadistic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

  Eric Stoltz

  Fashion, Dark, Thinking

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Father, Teenager

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  People, Want, Humans

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• Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

  Henry Adams

  Love Is, Average, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.31, Booklassic

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• 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.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communism, Figures, Humans

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• I'm a big believer in human nature.

  Robert Agostinelli

  Bigs, Believer, Humans

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• Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

  Phillips Brooks

  Future, Quality, Strange

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

  Lily King

  Three, My Family, Back And Forth

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Sheep, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strength, Nature, Character

  "Frederick the Great". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 90, 1842.

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• And in that hour,
  The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
  To such gigantic and enormous growth,
  Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
  Hence date the persecution and the pain
  That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
  Regardless of their plaints.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Animal

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.318

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• LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Heart, Science, Emotional

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

  William John Locke

  Anxious Thoughts, Advertisements, Humans

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

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• My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

  Michael Loceff

  Math, Thinking, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

  Patton Oswalt

  Knowing, Comedy, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Liberty, Causes, Opinion

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