#human nature

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

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I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. ↗

— Anna Sui

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I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. ↗

— Guy Pearce

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Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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