Quotes About Human nature

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

Much of what Freud believed to be biological, instinctual, and changeless has been shown by modern research to be a result of specific cultural causes.1 Much of what Freud described as characteristic of universal human nature was merely characteristic of certain middle-class European men and women at the end of the nineteenth century.

Finally, but perhaps above all, human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural tendency to interpret finds in the way that most flatters their stature.

Altogether, according to RSC calculations, fifty-nine elements are needed to construct a human being. Six of these—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus—account for 99.1 percent of what makes us, but much of the rest is a bit unexpected.

Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.

Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Order. Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. Attractive because it promises true good.

Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.