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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.
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.
With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.
A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!