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"But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal."
"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint."
"Brevity - the sister of talent."
"I believe in order to understand"
"To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition."
"One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth."
"A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having."
"Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did."
"Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter."
"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."
"There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste."
"Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent."
"Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility"
"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."
"Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part."
"History is the discovering of the principles of human nature."
"I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward."
"Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be."
"You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature."
"Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature."
