Quotes About Human nature

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

Man is a biped without feathers.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.