Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations they will struggle and snatch from each other and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

I plead for conservation of human culture which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest it is beautiful. If it is not honest it is obvious.

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

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

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics religion virtually anything.

There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

People have always wanted to be recognized and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments and now they simply want to be visible.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry to want to warm up when cold to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature there is no appeal.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.