Top 82 Philosophy Human Nature Quotes
#1. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#2. The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
Milan Kundera
#3. Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?
Drats
#4. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#5. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
Pindar
#6. Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.
Erich Fromm
#8. What did the Romans say? "De gustibus non est disputandum": It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.
Massimo Marino
#9. As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.
Joshua Teya
#10. Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
Iain Pears
#11. Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them
Morena Baloyi
#12. Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
T.A. Uner
#13. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Aberjhani
#14. Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficial
to the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#15. The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.
Osamu Dazai
#16. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna Hardy
#17. For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
Lin Yutang
#18. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#19. All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David Eagleman
#20. Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
Felix Alba-Juez
#21. The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
#22. There is no human mind. There is only a universal mind. We borrow it for the time being and try to shape it in our own way to make it unique. It is like owning a plot of land. We borrow it from nature and call it our land. We try to shape it, build on it, and cultivate it.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of a concern for "human beings" - regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.
Barry Goldwater
#24. Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#25. Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all.
Ernest Becker
#27. Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
Giambattista Vico
#28. Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
Baruch Spinoza
#29. No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
Virginia Woolf
#30. This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
Hans W. Silvester
#31. Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.
Robert Samuelson
#34. The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood
Arun Joshi
#35. Look Below and You'll feel Rich,
Look Above and You'll feel Poor
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#36. Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.
Eraldo Banovac
#37. The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.
Lawrence Block
#38. Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.
Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
#39. The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.
Eraldo Banovac
#40. Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#41. As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
Alan Watts
#43. All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
Dean Koontz
#44. The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.
Jodi Picoult
#45. Life is ephemeral; each moment passes quickly, a blur of color on a fast moving subway car. There and gone and all we are left with is the imprint of what once was.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#46. One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
Rob Shepherd
#47. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
#48. Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is.
Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)
Nigel Hey
#49. Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.
Frithjof Schuon
#50. To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.
Erich Fromm
#51. I am waiting for those days when the human nature will be in harmony with the nature of the nature to enjoy all the beauties and magics of life.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. That's a bit of philosophy right there. We all want ice cream in this life. That's what we want. And that tells us an awful lot about human nature and the way we feel - which is what philosophy is all about, I would have thought.
Alexander McCall Smith
#55. If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
George Lakoff
#56. Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
Jonas Eriksson
#57. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#58. Perception believed is reality achieved
Andy August
#59. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
#60. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#62. The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.
Bankei Yotaku
#63. We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.
Jurgen Habermas
#65. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
Erich Fromm
#66. I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
Albert Camus
#67. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
Stefan Molyneux
#68. Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?
Soren Kierkegaard
#69. I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
Adel Abouhana
#71. If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.
Leo Tolstoy
#73. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#74. It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
#76. Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.
Eraldo Banovac
#77. Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.
Nocturnus Libertus
#78. Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.
Pope John Paul II
#79. Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#80. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
#81. Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
Erich Fromm
#82. While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man's nature - those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.
Hayden Thorne
