#human nature

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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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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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

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

— Steven Pinker

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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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The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

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