#human nature

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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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ↗

— William James

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People want to typecast you; it's human nature. ↗

— Stacy Keach

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You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ↗

— Laurence Stern

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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