“What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.”
“We want what we can't have. It's human nature.”
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”
“We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
“But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.”