Quotes About Human nature

In an extraordinary correspondence, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud explored the topic of human violence. Einstein's letter concluded that "man has in him the need to hate and destroy.

Media changes—human nature does not. Violence and predation have been a part of human life for millions of years.

Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.

She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are.

As a rule, man's a fool; When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not.

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

it. Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.

Original Sin has great marketing potential.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others; he also hates himself in others.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

They introduce some new technology and no matter how much good it does for most people, there's always a crazy son of a bitch who'll find something twisted to do with it.

The Hebrew view of humanity is very different from the Greek view. There is no trace of dualism. The Hebrew word for body (gewiyyâ) occurs only fourteen times in the Old Testament5 and never stands in contrast to the soul (neeš).

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require material gains, like power, wealth, territory.

It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.

A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

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Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.

War itself requires no particular motivation, but appears to be ingrained in human nature and is even valued as something noble; indeed, the desire for glory inspires men to it, even independently of selfish motives.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.