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Jun. 25th, 2007
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Jun. 25th, 2007 05:48 pmToday's homework: quotes on human nature....
1. There is no human nature,.... Man simply is. Not that he simply is what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, as he conceives himself after existing – as he wills to be after that leap toward existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre
2. No matter how strong [Man’s] animal tendency to yield passively to the attractions of comfort and well-being, which he calls happiness, he is still destined to make himself worthy of humanity by actively struggling with the obstacles that cling to him because of the crudity of his nature. – Immanuel Kant
3. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted by Loren Eiseley in his essay Man Against the Universe.
4. The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. – Montaigne
5. Adam fell that men might be, and man is that he might have joy – 2 Nephi 2:25, Book of Mormon
6. Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human. – Desiderius Erasmus http://en.proverbia.net/citastema.asp?tematica=577
7. It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. - Charles Dickens http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/human_nature_t001.htm
8. I am thinking, therefore I exist. – Rene Descartes. Taken from Discourse on Method, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol. 1, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothof,and Dugald Murdoch, and reprinted in The Study of Human Nature, second edition, edited by Leslie Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Pg. 86.
1. There is no human nature,.... Man simply is. Not that he simply is what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, as he conceives himself after existing – as he wills to be after that leap toward existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre
2. No matter how strong [Man’s] animal tendency to yield passively to the attractions of comfort and well-being, which he calls happiness, he is still destined to make himself worthy of humanity by actively struggling with the obstacles that cling to him because of the crudity of his nature. – Immanuel Kant
3. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing, I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted by Loren Eiseley in his essay Man Against the Universe.
4. The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. – Montaigne
5. Adam fell that men might be, and man is that he might have joy – 2 Nephi 2:25, Book of Mormon
6. Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human. – Desiderius Erasmus http://en.proverbia.net/citastema.asp?tematica=577
7. It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. - Charles Dickens http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/human_nature_t001.htm
8. I am thinking, therefore I exist. – Rene Descartes. Taken from Discourse on Method, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol. 1, translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothof,and Dugald Murdoch, and reprinted in The Study of Human Nature, second edition, edited by Leslie Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Pg. 86.