Human-nature Quotes

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our...

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nat...

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of...

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion run...

If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is...

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehav...

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...

as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely...

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men d...

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ar...

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to...

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appre...

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of th...

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself tha...

Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to...

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exi...

He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, it...

Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we ...

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic cli...

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordi...

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted...

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again...

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it'...

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though ...

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make...

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop ...

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impo...

And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in whic...

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or ...

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religi...

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? ...

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his ...

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with ou...

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel ...

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well o...

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, a...

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of peopl...

It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someon...

After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and tha...

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, an...

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly ...

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes....

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

... I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken he...

...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those w...

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I h...

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out i...

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without so...

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel ...

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he find...

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human d...

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse h...

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existen...

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just ...

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happen...

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their ...

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer...

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their live...

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...