#human nature

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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Human nature is not of itself vicious. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

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