Nature Quotes by Xunzi

Xunzi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Kings

Men

Nature

Xunzi

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 people’s emotional nature.

Emotional

Nature

Tired

Xunzi

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Nature

People

Teacher

Xunzi

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.

Criminals

Giving

Nature

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Benoit Mandelbrot

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Eric Hoffer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Agriculture

Animal

Believe

Blood

Broken

Causes

Criminals

Desire

Done

Ease

Emotional

Evil

Excess

Feelings

Fluency

Foresight

Giving

Goodness

Heard

Heart

Heaven

Honor

Human Nature

Humility

Humor

Inspiring

Intelligent

Justice

Kings

Knowing

Leadership

Longing

Men

Mind

Nature

Noble

Order

Ornaments

Passion

People

Power

Practice

Pride

Principles

Promise

Reflection

Sacrifice

Scholar

Sincerity

States

Strong

Stupid

Successful

Teacher

Tired

Tongue

Two

Use

Wish

Years

Nature Quotes by Xunzi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

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 people’s emotional nature.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

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.

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Benoit Mandelbrot

Humphry Davy

Yvon Chouinard

Eric Hoffer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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