“Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.”– Xun Zi Related Quotes “Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.”– Primo Levi “this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.”— Titus Lucretius Carus “Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”– Steven Pinker