Quotes About Human nature

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

Stvarno lepo je samo ako ne može ni?emu da služi. Sve što je korisno, ružno je, jer predstavlja potrebu, a kod ?oveka je ona gnusna i odvratna kao i njegova jadna i odvratna priroda. Najkorisnije u svakoj ku?i je klozet.

No existe nada realmente hermoso si no es lo que no puede servir para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas.

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

The practical orders of life, while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender.

Die Mannsleute sind doch immer noch schlimmer als man denkt.

Original sin—that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil—will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.

Most men and women must suppress the good within them to be evil; just as, to be good, they must suppress the evil. There is no final victory of one or the other. Indeed

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

"The most prevalent and destructive fear is not of sickness or death itself. It is the fear of being human. All of our neurotic symptoms are retaliation against ourselves for daring to be human, this is less than godlike martyrs or masters. This is what psychotherapy is all about: getting over the fear of being human.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.

He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.