Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
Human Nature Quotes
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.
At this day… the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his […]
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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.
