Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Human Nature Quotes
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Human nature will not change. In any great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to […]
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature – a type nowhere at present existing.
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
