This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.
Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.