Human-nature Quotes

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own w...

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into ge...

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their probl...

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisono...

It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but histo...

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment ...

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont beli...

It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the ...

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have so...

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agr...

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrough...

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will alwa...

Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from an...

There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance,...

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the who...

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and disc...

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, ...

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces o...

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a refle...

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it s...

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in...

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few...

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit wi...

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine ...

...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. Th...

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most ...

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude sh...

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...

Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act i...

Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.

Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody...

All Mad"'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of yo...

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor huma...

I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its...

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to t...

Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives...

It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserve...

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die ju...

The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after...

Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die jus...

In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must d...

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must ...

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...

Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from bein...

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead...

The human soul is an abyss

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanze...

The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intol...

We have a tendency to describe the human condition in lofty terms, such as a quest for freedom or st...

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called moralit...

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am g...

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "s...

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expe...

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long inter...

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and d...

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fair...

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a ...

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of m...

[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought sinc...

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire t...

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread...

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

An ugly smile. An ugly soul.

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our great...

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.