#uma

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#artists #depends #human #human nature #many

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#another #easily #heart #hearts #hope

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

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

#compelled #evil #evils #good #greater

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. ↗

— George Plimpton

#favorite #her #kate #monologue #relationship

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#been #bodies #depended #forefront #human

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ↗

— Plutarch

#human #least #men #opinion #part

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#human #human race #point #race #recover