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I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.
Human nature is fond of novelty.
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
Introspection is always retrospection
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.