Human Nature Quotes - Page 18

• What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Interesting, Found, Humans

  "The Punk Director: Penelope Spheeris Revisits Her Decline of Western Civilization Trilogy". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2015.

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• The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Self, Done, Matter

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

  Max Scheler

  Revenge, Attitude, Self

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

  Glenn Beck

  Ignorance, Reason, Humans

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  People, Brain, Answers

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• Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

  Jakob Dylan

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Women and Country: A Conversation with Jakob Dylan and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

  Jean-Marie Eveillard

  Pain, Cutting, People

  "Value Stocks Are Hot - But Most Investors Will Burn Out" by Jason Zweig, www.wsj.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  Youssef Ziedan

  Dream, Humans

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• Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

  Thucydides

  Constant, Humans, Human History

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• It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.223

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• There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Passion

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.82

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• To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Simple, Law, Cosmos

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Humble, Son, Greatness

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• There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Ideas, Intellectual

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sex, Humanity, Balls

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• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Travel, Quality

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• People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Equality, Long

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• What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ifs

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• We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Stupidity, Mind

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• Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Next Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Afterlife, Profound, Rainbow

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for.

  Maya Tiwari

  Karma, Judging, Understanding

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Different, Firsts

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

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• Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Men, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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