Nature Of Man Quotes

• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Animal
  • Conscious
  • Nature Of Man

• The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Province
  • Nature Of Man

• A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

  

  Edwin Forrest
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Nature Of Man

• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Goodness
  • Inclination
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• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Creatures
  • Birds
  • Nature Of Man

• There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Religions
  • Energies
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• It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

  

  Tacitus
  • Resist
  • Compulsion
  • Nature Of Man

• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heaven
  • Imagine
  • Word

• So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Friends
  • Violence
  • Nature Of Man

• His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Compassion
  • Destroyed
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