E. M. Forster Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

• Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

  E. M. Forster

  Way, Human Nature, Howards End

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

• England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, England, Human Nature

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Believe, Fall

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 396, to Eric Fletcher, July 9, 1951.

• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

  E. M. Forster

  Breathing, People, Goes On

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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