#human nature

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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Envy is human nature. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

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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 Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ↗

— Howard Lindsay

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I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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

— Steven Pinker

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