“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.”
Aristotle
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”
“No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.”
A. A. Milne
