Quotes About Human nature

The earth might move, but human nature only accepts the move when it suits human purposes.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! ("Augustus")

A world where a man is able to hunt his fellow man! How could he be called a man?

You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else.

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

Primitive peoples did not inspire Rudge, who saw in them the worst aspects of human nature, reminding him that superstition, ignorance, violence, and cruelty were inherent human traits, first impulses, and that civilization was a cheap coat of paint over a rotten edifice.

Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

Vuoi sapere una importante Verità Eterna, tu diavolessa, tigre? Impara: IL SACRIFICIO È LA SOLA, VERA PERVERSIONE UMANA.

Since the fall of the human race, we've been alternately telling ourselves that we are good, that if we try hard enough we'll be good enough, or that being or that being good is an impossibility, so we should just give up and have fun.

You should love all. But you should not trust everyone. For, every human is not trustworthy. Yes! So, love all and trust only a few people. -Emeasoba George

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Toti oamenii cauta placerea-afirmatia e adevarata,cu conditia sa adaugam ca sunt si unii care cauta durerea si ca aceea e tot o cautare a placerii.E hedonismul pe dos.

Dintre toÈ›i semenii noÈ™tri, cel mai mult le sem?n?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri. Nu degeaba le purt?m atâta interes - È™i ei nou?.

C?ci dac? diferenÈ›a dintre om È™i animal rezid? în faptul c? animalul nu poate fi decât animal, pe când omul poate fi neom, adic? altceva decât el însuÈ™i - atunci eu sunt un neom.

Pentru un tân?r ambiÅ£ios, nu exist? nenorocire mai mare decât frecventarea unor buni cunosc?tori ai firii omeneÅŸti. Eu însumi am frecventat trei sau patru: la dou?zeci de ani, eram terminat.

This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history.

Se, no momento de nosso nascimento, fôssemos tão conscientes como o somos ao sair da adolescência, é mais do que provável que aos cinco anos o suicídio fosse um fenômeno habitual ou mesmo uma questão de honorabilidade. Mas despertamos tarde demais: temos contra nós os anos fecundados unicamente pela presença dos instintos, que devem ficar estupefatos com as conclusões a que conduzem nossas meditações e decepções.