#human nature

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ↗

— Henry Adams

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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

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Envy is human nature. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

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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

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People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. ↗

— David Baldacci

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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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