Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
I think human nature is eternal and constant.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.
