2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

Sin embargo, todos los hombres, incluso los más educados, tienen algo de supersticiosos.

Make yourself a little harder to get. Knowing you're available all the time is the invitation to be taken for granted.

This is what I have always loved about you humans. You are essentially good.”“Not everyone,” Machiavelli said tiredly.“No. Not everyone. But enough.

We become good or bad because of our environment and companionship. Indeed, a human is a product of its environment and companionship which reflects in the personality inside out

Human dynamism cannot be manipulated or switched on like that of a machine. It cannot be engineered or programmed. Human beings are created, not constructed – that is why they love to create their own reality. Human action cannot be explained by the laws of thermodynamics or by that of molecular biology. The wellspring of human action comes from the human spirit. The dwelling space of this spirit is our being.

I take the view that we’re the sum of everything that happens to us, good and bad. It’s an alchemist’s interpretation, of course, seeing people as a compilation of ingredients combined and acted on by processes. The implication is, if you leave out one of the ingredients, even if, particularly if, it’s unstable or noxious, you get a different result.

Abundance is second human nature. Believe firmly in this statement to experience abundance in life.

Humanism was not a loss of confidence either in art or in art's capacity to exceed historical scholarship. For Panofsky humanism meant dedication to a balanced ideal of human nature. As such, it was a formal concept. Humanism sees asymmetries and imbalances in human nature as deformations. Humanism is the form classicism takes after the discrediting of the Idea.

Our capacities of humanity may not be as powerful as our innate primitiveness, but with each act of that humanity in our daily walks of life we make those capacities stronger, thus heading towards a future where those capacities of humanity will indeed be more powerful than our primitiveness.