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Quotes About Human

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
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
Envy is human nature.
~ Monica Bellucci
Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
~ Patrick Henry
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
~ James Taylor
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
~ Plato
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
~ Ai Weiwei
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
~ Ruta Sepetys
Law is born from despair of human nature.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
~ Alan Bleasdale
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
Human nature is above all things lazy.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.
~ Ian Barbour
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
~ Gyorgy Kepes
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
~ David Hume
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.
~ Paul Valery
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
~ Elizabeth Lesser
There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
~ Blaise Pascal
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
~ Philip Roth, American Pastoral