Famous quotes containing the words basic, human and/or emotions:
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What can everyone do?—Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the prospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)