Man's Nature Quotes

• Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

  

  John Calvin
  • Speak
  • Man's Nature
  • Factory Of Idols

• There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Love
  • Charitable
  • Man's Nature

• For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Justice
  • Requires
  • Man's Nature

• No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

  

  Plato
  • Knowing
  • Man's Nature
  • Social State