Quotes About Human nature

Hapisteki ÅŸairin dediÄŸi gibi, her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

Let's start by admitting that human beings don't always act rationally.

On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man's power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.

It is no doubt very wrong to long after a naughty thing. But nevertheless, we all do so. One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall. When we confess that we are all sinners, we confess that we all long after naughty things

Look in the heart and write...The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in reality speaking for humanity. Humanity will recognize itself in him, because it is human nature that has inspired the discourse. Life recognizes life!

Yo creo que eso es lo que hace a las relaciones con los demás tan interesantes: esa certeza de que, aunque nos lo propongamos, nunca los vamos a conocer del todo.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness

men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been.

which we call men [Greek: euyvomoves], or say they have

Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends.

Man, if perfected is the best of all animals but when isolated he is the worst of all

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.

Pretože básnici sú tej samej prirodzenosti ako my, najpresved?ivejÅ¡ie pôsobia tí, ktorých ovládajú nejaké váÅ¡ne; pobúrený buráca a rozhnevaný sa hnevá najpravdivejÅ¡ie.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

It was such a nuisance that men were fundamentally polygamous. On the other hand, if they weren't… Yes, perhaps it was better this way, after all.

But you must remember you're dealing with human beings. You can transport them to another world and give them a paradise, but they still come equipped with their fears and insecurities and cultural predilections.

The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.