Quotes About Human nature

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.