Human Nature Quotes
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.
She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be.
..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.
...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.
Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
...the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.
Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.
People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
If a man couldn’t control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.
Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.
Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.
I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough incentive.
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.
We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.
Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.
The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.
It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
When you are in a dark place, you tend to sit back and wait for the light to come. But it won't: because, you are the only one who can find your inner light.
Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents.
If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human.
Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.
Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people, ' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always, ' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.
Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.
Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.
