Quotes About Human nature

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means? What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days

People change, Honor. And sometimes they don't. Sometimes, they make poor choices and big mistakes. Good people sometimes do bad things.

He had seen how people grew cruel with telling themselves of their own compassion: nothing made you harder than that.

Only human beings and rabid animals turn on their own kind; gratuitous pain is unknown in nature.

I'm only human. A house without a woman is no house …' It did as much good as last winter's snow, of course.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.

I don't know about the people's nature... I know only about people.

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

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Human's intrinsic nature manifest in it's misunderstandings

This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that

Cilv?ku lielais vairums str?d? tikai nepieciešam?bas spiesti, un no š? cilv?ka dabisk? riebuma pret darbu izriet pašas smag?k?s soci?l?s probl?mas.

Expressando-o de modo sucinto, existem duas características humanas muito difundidas, responsáveis pelo fato de os regulamentos da civilização só poderem ser mantidos através de certo grau de coerção, a saber, que os homens não são espontaneamente amantes do trabalho e que os argumentos não têm valia alguma contra suas paixões.

The communists think they have found the way to redeem mankind from evil. Man is equivocally good and well disposed to his neighbour, but his nature has been corrupted by the institution of private property ... I can recognize the psychological presumption behind it as a baseless illusion. With the abolition of private property the human love of aggression is robbed of one of its tools, a strong one no doubt, but certainly not the strongest ... Aggression was not created by property.

But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.

But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society thus brands what is unpleasant as untrue, denying the conclusions of psychoanalysis with logical and pertinent arguments. These arguments originate from affective sources, however, and society holds to these prejudices against all attempts at refutation.

Yes, of course, there are also nice people... But we all know niceness is never as interesting to write, or read, about.