#human nature

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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

— David Baldacci

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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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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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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. ↗

— David Millar

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