Thomas Clifford Allbutt Quotes

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments ...

The law of nature is so unalterable that it cannot be changed by God himself.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature ...

People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.