Quotes About Human

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

Theoretically, the procedure might be more stable if it was applied to a human fetus in vivo. An unborn child in the womb.

God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.

Gods, the pamphlets asserted, were not supernatural beings, but tenuously living things, like ethereal plants, that evolved in concert with the human species. We were simply their medium—our brains and flesh the soil in which they sprouted and grew.

this is so important to the human animal, people will do almost anything to get attention, including committing a crime or attempting suicide. Look behind almost any action, and you will see this need as a primary motivation.

Hence politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The human that depended on focused attention for its survival now becomes the distracted scanning animal, unable to think in depth, yet unable to depend on instincts.

Aggression is a tendency that is latent in every single human individual.

Time is an artificial concept that we ourselves have created to make the limitlessness of eternity and the universe more bearable, more human.

The greatest discovery of my generation is the fact that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. —William James

The truth is that we humans live on the surface, reacting emotionally to what people say and do. We form opinions of others and ourselves that are rather simplified. We settle for the easiest and most convenient story to tell ourselves.

Let us call the collection of these forces that push and pull at us from deep within human nature.

And finally, we can include the rapidly expanding library of biographies now available, revealing human nature in depth and in action.

The Laws of Human Nature is designed to immerse you in all aspects of human behavior and illuminate its root causes. If you let it guide you, it will radically alter how you perceive people and your entire approach to dealing with them. It will also radically change how you see yourself.

This cycle is bound to happen again and again, is part of human nature. The irrational simply, just changes it's look and fashions.

The strategies that succeed in war, whether conventional or unconventional, are based on timeless psychology, and great military failures have much to teach us about human stupidity and the limits of force in any arena.

La causa más común de los errores humanos —escribió más tarde el cardenal de Retz— es temer demasiado el peligro presente y no lo suficiente el peligro remoto.

The shadow is something we deny and repress. It is so much easier to dig up and moralize about the dark qualities of others. It is almost unnatural for us to look inward at this side of ourselves. But remember you are only half a human if you keep this buried. Be intrepid in this process.

In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life.

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.

It was only later that he recognised the folly he had fallen into, a human trait he had long observed: that merely because one wishes to believe in a thing, it does not follow that it is true.

Fear is historically the strongest emotion in economics. Remember FDR in the Great Depression? It's the most famous quote in financial history: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?