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I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that har — Tom Stoppard
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, — William James
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot
Human nature is above all things lazy. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of — Herbert Spencer
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not — George Mason
English majors understand human nature better than economists do. — Jane Smiley
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. — Tacitus
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. — Robinson Jeffers
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. — David Hume
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. — Mason Cooley
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthen — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human natu — Ephraim Mirvis
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more — Richard Thompson
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole co — Rudolf Steiner
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we s — Mo Yan
Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withho — Trey Gowdy
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about — Jaron Lanier