Human Nature Quotes - Page 34

• Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Scholar, Humans

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Four, Humans

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

  Steven Pinker

  Violence, Problem, Blank Slates

  "What Comes Naturally" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.

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• Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Language, Window

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

  Steven Pinker

  Opinion, Philosopher, Psychologist

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Pursuit Of Happiness, Desire

  "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Orthodox, Worldly Things

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.7

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• Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

  Samuel Richardson

  Disposition, Humans, Creatures

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• I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Common, Humans

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• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Joy, Soul

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

  Jane Smiley

  Economist, Humans, Majors

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

  Jane Smiley

  Cheat, Free Market, Humans

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Faults, Frailty

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• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Herbert Spencer

  Nature, Thinking, Government

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'The Americans'

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

  William Howard Taft

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Mr. Capone". Book by Robert J. Schoenberg, 1992.

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• Better not be at all than not be noble.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Noble

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  Earl Warren

  Nature, Justice, Important

  "Earl Warren : A Political Biography" by Leo Katcher, (p. 315), 1967.

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

  Greg Graffin

  Tradition, Humans, Thematic

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• It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational Love, Hate, Anger

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.300, Library of America

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• As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.

  David Hume

  Two, Challenges, Foundation

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.362

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• Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

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