Quotes About Human nature

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Man is a bad animal.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.