Quotes About Behavior

Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone.

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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Man's complete lack of responsibility, for his behavior and for his nature, is the bitterest drop which the man of knowledge must swallow.

In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect.

All the means by which one has so far attempted to make mankind moral were through and through immoral.

Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning ourselves—justifying ourselves.

and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Shame, shame, shame—that is the history of the human!

Look, all of us have our private rituals—our own little peculiar ways of eating and drinking and sleeping and going to the bathroom. Rituals we're hardly conscious of, but that would look mighty strange if analyzed. You know, to step or not to step on cracks in the sidewalk. Things like that.

Cos'è il buon senso… oggi, nel Ventesimo secolo, in qualunque epoca? L'aderenza a una norma. Il conformarsi a certe convenzioni di base che regolano l'intera condotta umana. Nella nostra epoca, l'allontanarsi della norma è diventata la norma. L'incapacità di conformarsi è diventato il modello del conformismo.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

It is a curious psychological fact that those who make their personal love public, and "dear" one another with saccharine epithets, are very often those who when alone quarrel and fight.

Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.

Don Pedro Luis de Borja-Pierluigi Borgia to the Italians—was still in his mid-twenties when he became the first member of his family to be the most hated man in Rome. He did so not by behaving badly in any way of which a credible record has survived, but by carrying out an assignment that made him the enemy of some of the most badly behaved Romans of his time.

It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren't supposed to do.

But we can never do nothing. That which we have done for thousands of years is also action

How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.