“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”– William James Related Quotes “Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”– Aristotle “The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”– Edward Gibbon “Nature is not human hearted.”– Lao Tzu