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

— Samuel Richardson

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#despair #human #human nature #law #nature

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ↗

— William James

#craving #deepest #human #human nature #nature

People want to typecast you; it's human nature. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#human nature #nature #people #typecast #want

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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