#human nature

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#acts #bravery #certain #enthusiasm #heroism

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#facts #go #human #human nature #nature

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#despot #hater #human #human nature #into

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

— David Hume

#hitherto #human #human nature #man #most

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

#emotions #every #external #external objects #find

Envy is human nature. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#human #human nature #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

#author #character #consistent #drew #ever

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature