Quotes About Human nature

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

No man is born without faults.

The best of men are men at best

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.