No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!
Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.
Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.
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.