Quotes About Human nature

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

And no doubt there was also a hint of one-upmanship in Debbie not passing on the information to the SIO in charge of her sister's case. It was human nature to get resentful and bloody-minded when pressed too far, after all.

Oh ingratos mortales! ¡Jamás conocéis vuestros bienes, sino cuando de ellos carecéis!

La vida sobrenatural implica una realidad ontológica interior: filiación divina, gracia que eleva la naturaleza, virtudes que elevan las potencias de esa naturaleza. Hay —con la elevación al orden sobrenatural— una profunda novedad en el hombre, que impone una primacía al amor hacia quienes como nosotros tienen esa elevación sobrenatural, la gracia, que es una participación de la naturaleza divina (cfr.

Los fundadores, ya se sabe, eran campesinos: gentecita humilde que traía del campo sus costumbres, como rezar el rosario, beber aguardiente, robarle al vecino y matarse por chichiguas con el prójimo en peleas a machete. ¿Qué podía nacer de semejante esplendor humano? Más. Y más y más y más.

El hombre en lo más hondo de lo más honde de su alma oscura es un ser malo, y mientras uno más vive y más lo conoce más malo es.

La palabra se inventó para mentir, en ella no cabe la verdad. El hombre es un mentiroso nato y la realidad no se puede apresar con palabras, así como un río no se puede apresar con las manos. El río fluye y se va, y nosotros con él.

Justice for everyone is an alarming thought because it raises the possibility that it might come upon oneself after all. As the author of Ephesians puts it, "by nature" we are all "children of wrath, like the rest of mankind" (Eph. 2:3).

The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienestar y lo hace huir de la incomodidad, el esfuerzo y el dolor.

Rousseau.—Although this politician, the paramount authority of the Democrats, makes the social edifice rest upon the general will, no one has so completely admitted the hypothesis of the entire passiveness of human nature in the presence of the lawgiver:— "If

Las personas movidas por las mejores intenciones siempre son las que acaban convirtiéndose en monstruos.

Cogí su mano como hubiera hecho con la de un niño desgraciado. Y, como un niño, apoyó su cabeza sobre mi hombro. La recibía porque allí estaba; la arcilla recibe el durazno que cae. La mayor parte de los seres humanos no se eligen mejor que los árboles que han crecido juntos y cuyas ramas se confunden por el crecimiento.

It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.

Humans are strange, adaptable animals, and eventually get used to anything, even the impossible or unbearable. ... Terror is tiring, and difficult to keep up indefinitely, so sooner or later it must be replaced with something more practical.

What strange beasts people are , she thought. We adjust to everything so quickly. Perhaps we would even get used to Hell.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.

Some people have said that man has improved . . . [and] that if Christ came back today, He would not be crucified but would be given a glorious reception. Christ does come to us every day in the form of Bibles that we do not read, in the form of churches that we do not attend, in the form of human need that we pass by. I am convinced that if Christ came back today, He would be crucified more quickly than He was two thousand years ago. Sin never improves. Human nature has not changed.