#human nature

I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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Human nature is not of itself vicious. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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

— Samuel Richardson

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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

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