#human nature

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. ↗

— David Baldacci

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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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. ↗

— William James

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