Quotes About Human nature

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?

Así es la gente! Todos son iguales: conocen de antemano todos los aspectos dañinos de una acción, ayudan, aconsejan e incluso la aprueban, al ver que no hay otro remedio, pero luego se lavan las manos y dan la espalda, con indignación, a quien tuvo el valor de cargar con toda responsabilidad. ¡Todos son así, hasta los más bondadosos, hasta los más inteligentes...!

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

L'uomo sogna un mondo in cui il bene e il male siano nettamente distinguibili, e questo perché, innato e indomabile, esiste in lui il desiderio di giudicare prima di aver capito. Su questo desiderio sono fondate le religioni e le ideologie.

Nunca seremos capaces de establecer con seguridad en qué medida nuestras relaciones con los demás son producto de nuestros sentimientos, de nuestro amor, de nuestro desamor, bondad, maldad, y hasta que punto son el resultado de la relación de fuerzas existentes entre ellos y nosotros.

Con que ligereza y con qué defectuosos materiales edifica el hombre sus excusas!

Non potremo mai stabilire con certezza fino a che punto i nostri rapporti con gli altri sono il risultato dei nostri sentimenti, del nostro amore, del nostro non-amore, della nostra bontà o del nostro rancore e fino a che punto sono condizionati dal rapporto di forze tra gli individui.

El carácter único del YO se esconde precisamente en lo que hay de inimaginable en el hombre. Sólo somos capaces de imaginarnos lo que es igual en todas las personas, lo general. El YO individual es aquello que se diferencia de lo general, o sea lo que no puede ser adivinado y calculado de antemano, lo que en el otro es necesario descubrir, develar, conquistar.

La mierda es un problema teológico más complejo que el mal. Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre

MoglibyÅ›my nazwa? zawrót gÅ'owy upojeniem sÅ'aboÅ›ciÄ…. CzÅ'owiek uÅ›wiadamia sobie swÄ… sÅ'abo?? i nie chce siÄ™ przed niÄ… broni?; pragnie jej siÄ™ podda?. Jest pijany sÅ'aboÅ›ciÄ…, chce by? jeszcze sÅ'abszy, chce upa?? poÅ›rodku placu, na oczach wszystkich, chce by? na dnie, jeszcze ni?ej ni? na dnie.

I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other.

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.