Quotes of: Human-nature Keyword

A person's true friend is his own pure human feature and the surrounding mother nature.

Anuj Somany

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation. If only humans understood... Most ignore it.

Assassins Wall

The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.

Frank Huguenard

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence serio...

Dennis Prager

I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and t...

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Horse's Neck

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Science & Human Values

God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Daniel Kahneman

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

James G. Frazer

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Bokeem Woodbine

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Victor Manan Nyambala

Christianity will not be content to be an evolution within the total category of human nature; an engagement such as that is too little to offer to a god. Neither does it even want to be the paradox for the believer, and then surreptitiously, little ...

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs

Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station, that he will be and do exactly the like when a despot on a throne; where the bad parts of his human nature, instead of being restrained and kept in ...

Considerations on Representative Government

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much ...

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast...

The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design

There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.

Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God