We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. " "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. " "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.
You possess the (pro. pen. si. ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
