Quotes About Human nature

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.