Quotes About Human nature

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...

We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.

Sex comes to most of us with a twist.

Even the few whom we genuinely adore we have to belittle secretly now and then, as Toby and I had to belittle James, just to feed the healthy appetite of our wondrously necessary egos.

Of course I love Arnold, but I can hate him too, and it can go along with love that one never forgives certain things.

Bradley, I wish I'd understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet. Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he's so divine but because he's so human. Even great art is jumble in the end. So the critics are just stupid? It needs no theory to tell us this! One should simply try to like as much as one can.

A human being is a morass, a swamp, a jungle.

Nobody likes bullies. Even other bullies - often especially - feel obliged to at least profess a hatred of them. Yet we've all been bullied and bullied others. It's in all of us, with nations we call it imperialism. You start to wonder about yourself.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Lamentarsi è una caratteristica innata della specie umana. Nel Secolo del Carbone la gente imprecava contro la macchina a vapore; in una commedia di Shakespeare un personaggio lamenta l'invenzione della polvere da sparo. Mille anni dopo ci si lamentava per la fabbricazione del cervello positronico.

Life is not like a murder mystery. In mysteries people always do the same thing. Then when some little thing is out of line, some wise-guy amateur detective makes big deductions. In real life, people don't do the same things all the time. They do different things at different times. In real life, people are crazy.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal's throat.

At the slightest stress, human beings seemed to divide themselves into antagonistic groups.

Enlightened self-interest' they call it.

Cada uno quiere gran dosis de igualdad para sí..., pero no tanta para los demás». [Hacia la Fundación]

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

Casi todo el mundo miente, unos por vanidad, para presentarse bajo una luz favorable, otros por temor y la mayoría simplemente por hábito.

los mismos hombres que en la vida cotidiana parecen mansos, al contar con impunidad y un buen pretexto suelen convertirse en fieras sanguinarias.

Qué sacas con pensar en el futuro, las cosas siguen su curso y tú no tienes control de nada, relájate, hermano», era el consejo cien veces repetido de su amigo. Lo acusaba de vivir en perpetua conversación consigo mismo, mascullando, recordando, arrepintiéndose, planeando. Decía que sólo los humanos andaban centrados en sí mismos, esclavos de su ego, observándose, a la defensiva aunque ningún peligro los amenazara.

Has sido soldado por muchos años, Pedro, y todavía crees que nos diferenciamos de los animales…

Nada de cíclopes, ni gigantes, ni hombres con cuatro brazos y cabeza de perro, pero encontraréis con seguridad seres primitivos y malvados, especialmente entre los castellanos»