Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Man is as the Lord made him. But we can change our institutions.

Human nature fascinates me.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn't been discovered yet. It's just another way of stating that we're biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

Only man makes Karma.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.