#human nature

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Human nature is what Heaven supplies. ↗

— Xun Zi

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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ↗

— Xun Zi

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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. ↗

— Morris West

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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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