Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour...
He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which,...
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.
They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight. They wanted fun, they wanted spice, they wanted hits, they wanted also a chance to say "'Ear, 'ea...
perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodi...
He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its ev...
He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, ban...
Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.
Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature
Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life....
Hicimos de los ojos una especia de espejos hacia adentro, con el resultado, muchas veces, de que acababan mostrando sin reserva lo que estabamos tratando de negar con la boca.
Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity
Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and con...
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess
Is It Frightening To Be Free?You said it.You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
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