Quotes About Human nature

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.

There is much enjoy in vengeance than love, and we humans already knew that.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? (But isn't that what people do?)

helping human nature and society mature in their moral and spiritual development, evolving in the direction of nonviolence and love before it's too late.

It is often easier for us to destroy each other than it is to resolve our differences. Such is the cosmic joke of human nature!

I have run tests on the handsome young man— he is fine breeding stock. After your pregnancy is finished, would you like to mate with him?" Serena took an agitated breath, fixing her mind on memories of Xavier. "Mate? Regardless of how much you study us, there are many things your machine brain will never understand about human nature." "We shall see about that," he said, calmly.

We are human not because of our physical form, but because of our underlying nature. Even when fitted with a machine body, a man may have a heart and soul Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not always. People made of flesh can be monsters, too. —PTOLEMY, Laboratory Sketches

Humans are survivors. They do things for themselves and then attempt to conceal their motivations through elaborate subterfuges. Gift-giving is a prime example of behavior that is secretly selfish. -Erasmus

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

Then I felt like having a piss and I did that

The evil is in humans, the Devil is not to blame

Human nature likes order; people find it hard to accept the notion of randomness. No matter what the laws of chance might tell us, we search for patterns among random events wherever they might occur—not only in the stock market but even in interpreting sporting phenomena.

man is, truly, an animal, / and yet, on turning round, he hits me in the head with his sadness

No virtuous man is strong enough to live in virtue at all times, nor is any sinner bad enough to exist in one welter of sin. Life is a tangled web and there is no one in the world who has not done both good and evil. Each and everyone has to bear the consequence of his actions. Do not give way to sorrow.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

I am speaking of University Education, which implies an extended range of reading, which has to deal with standard works of genius, or what are called the classics of a language: and I say, from the nature of the case, if Literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian Literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of a sinful man.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

Plato, Socrates' most celebrated student, assigned a high role to demons: "No human nature invested with supreme power is able to order human affairs," he said, "and not overflow with insolence and wrong Ã¢â'¬Â¦

the human animal is a selfish beast...

Believe me, Kinson, the potensial for evil lodges deep in every man, myself included. We restrain it better, keep it buried deeper, but it lives within us.