Quote by Xun Zi
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot stu

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of peoples emotional nature. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. – Xun Zi

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Knowledge
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

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Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesnt work. – John Garamendi

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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. – Louis Nizer

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