#human nature

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#exploration #film-making #form #happens #human

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#deepest #desire #fraternity #however #human

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

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#human nature #love #love is #master #nature