Quotes About Human nature

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

I am the wilderness lost in man.