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 […]
Human Nature Quotes
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.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear; and you can’t change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism – not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The power of patriarchy has been extremely difficult to understand because it is all pervasive. It has influenced our most basic ideas about human nature and about our relation to the universe… It is the one system which, until recently, had never in recorded history been openly challenged, and whose doctrines were so universally accepted […]
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, […]
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
The man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
