#human nature

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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