Human Nature Quotes - Page 18

• Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

  Dana Stabenow

  Stories, Facts, Principles

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• even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

  Hadewijch

  God, Fall, Trust Yourself

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.

  David Bentley Hart

  Reality, Humanity, Vision

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• Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.

  Cassidy Erin Gifford

  Together, Different, Way

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Reality, Wings, Long

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• power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Passion, Power, Humans

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• It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

  Jo Coudert

  Quirks, Treats, Wells

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.187, iUniverse

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• I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

  Angelina Jolie

  War, Filmmaker, Humans

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• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  Aristotle

  Sports, Men, People

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• Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

  Andrew Pyper

  Dark, Desire, Needs

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• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

  Bernard Baruch

  Government, Congress, Humans

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• Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

  Bill Maher

  Tendencies, Humans

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

  Bill Maher

  Mind, Quality, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Interesting, Found, Humans

  "The Punk Director: Penelope Spheeris Revisits Her Decline of Western Civilization Trilogy". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

  Max Scheler

  Revenge, Attitude, Self

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

  Glenn Beck

  Ignorance, Reason, Humans

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

  Jakob Dylan

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Women and Country: A Conversation with Jakob Dylan and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

  Jean-Marie Eveillard

  Pain, Cutting, People

  "Value Stocks Are Hot - But Most Investors Will Burn Out" by Jason Zweig, www.wsj.com. February 15, 2013.

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• There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Ideas, Intellectual

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  Youssef Ziedan

  Dream, Humans

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• Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Stupidity, Mind

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• If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sex, Humanity, Balls

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• People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Equality, Long

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