Human Nature Quotes

• A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Letters
  • Human Nature
  • Clash

• It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Pleasure
  • Popularity
  • Cafes

• Habit is the deepest law of human nature.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Law
  • Habit
  • Human Nature

• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Business
  • Game
  • Hearts

• But the human brain is itself a part of nature, fanned into existence by billions of years of sunshine acting on the molecules of the Earth. It is not perfectible in the immediate future, even if biologists should wish to alter the brain — which is a questionable ambition. What men make of the universe at large is a product of what they can see of it and of their own human nature.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Earth
  • Brain
  • Human Nature

• ... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Space
  • Human Nature

• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Genius
  • Sympathy
  • Satire

• It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Talent
  • Run
  • Human Nature

• It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

  

  Svetlana Alliluyeva
  • World
  • Rules
  • Regimes

• I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene..

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
  • Violence
  • Part
  • Human Nature

• We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Gods
  • Actions
  • Human Nature

• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Fight
  • Chess
  • Enthusiasts

• Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Body

• Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Perfect
  • State
  • Human Nature

• The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Religion
  • Teach

• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Suffering
  • Humility
  • Human Nature

• When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Horse
  • Human Nature

• The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Harmony
  • Studies

• It's funny how human nature works. You get a big guy back, and suddenly you think that the goals are just going to come.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Goals
  • Works
  • Human Nature

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