#natur

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ↗

— Manly Hall

#chaos #disillusionment #ends #leads #naturally

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

#call #else #mad #much #nature

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#general #his #human #human nature #man

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#religion #nature

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#because #city #dense #different #especially

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#approach #beings #choose #complicated #dash

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#been #hold #job #mirror #nature

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anything #cgi #desire #different #driven

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#get #law #nature #out #pervading