Quotes About Human nature

Every person is too complex to know themselves completely, and we all contain wisdom that we cannot comprehend.

Someone with experience knows that people are capable of deception and willing to deceive. That knowledge brings with it an arguably justified pessimism about human nature, personal and otherwise, but it also opens the door to another kind of faith in humanity: one based on courage, rather than naivete. I will trust you—I will extend my hand to you—despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.

En estado natural, por decirlo de algún modo, a los seres humanos no les gusta pensar como lógicos, ni siquiera como empiristas. Hace falta entrenamiento para pensar así. Pero aun en ausencia de ese entrenamiento, seguimos pensando, aunque lo hacemos de manera más subjetiva, como seres -poco razonables-, idiosincráticos, emocionales que habitan unos cuerpos de tamaño determinado, con unas propiedades particulares y constreñidas.

Hal Yakzuby le enseñó algo, no directamente, pero si indirectamente que los humanos quieren ser engañados. A veces tienen la verdad ante sus ojos y la ignoran, la desprecian, la desprecian, no la aceptan.

Los humanos son inestables y siempre ambicionan más de lo que tienen. La evolución y la historia tenían que habernos enseñado eso.

Sirk insanlar? beÅŸ para etmez. Onlara güvenemezsin. K?skanç insanlard?r.

Nem volt szükség a táborokra, hogy megtudjuk: az ember egyaránt képes a legjobbra és a legrosszabbra.

Tipul uman pe care-l prefer?m în cel?lalt schiÅ£eaz? profilul propriei noastre inimi. Iubirea este un elan care se iveÈ™te din cea mai adânc? subteran? a persoanei noastre È™i, ajungând la faÅ£a vizibil? a vieÅ£ii, târ??te aluvionar alge È™i scoici din abisul l?untric. Un bun naturalist, studiind filiaÅ£ia acestor materiale, poate reconstrui fondul pelagic din care au fost smulse.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

As Hobbes saw clearly, people don't have to be evil to get into collective action problems. They just have to be human.

Love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish.

Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

Ljudi su tako kratkovidi. Kad su sre?ni, onda su sre?ni na neki glup i nepodnošljiv na?in, kad su pod stresom, onda su pod stresom na neki glup i nepodnošljiv na?in, a kad su ljuti, to je opet glupo i nepodnošljivo. Ja valjda prosto smatram da su glupi, da nemaju pojma ni o ?emu. Misle da su besmrtni.

Rome, yes, I say, thinking in quick succession of the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the cardinals screwing around while wondering whether women have souls or not, and of Nero, of course, who killed his closest family and let the city burn. I don't reckon he liked people, either.

the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Was he so ignorant of human nature as not to know that a comfortable bank balance and an appreciation of good food and tobacco and well-cut clothes and jewels can go perfectly well in practice, in normal beings, with the keenest sensibility to the spiritualities of art?