Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at...
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.
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...
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
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.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but t...
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
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