A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

William Blackstone

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.

Murray Rothbard

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

John Locke

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

Jewel

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

Jewel

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

William Blackstone

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

John Dewey

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

Gregg Braden

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Hjalmar Branting

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Hjalmar Branting

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

William Blackstone

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.