For the first time in four billion years a species on this planet has read its own recipe, or is in the process of reading its own recipe. That seems to me to be an epochal moment, because we’re going to get depths of insight into the nature of human nature that we never could […]
Human Nature Quotes
We don’t have to teach the general elements of human nature; – the five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. They are universal; so would religion be were it natural, but it is not. On the contrary, it is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are Atheists, and were religion not inculcated […]
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Ya don’t hafta know how to read or write, When you’re out with a feller in the pale moonlight. Ya don’t hafta look in a book to find, What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind. That comes natur’lly.
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly… Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature – what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action – if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
