Quotes About Human nature

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

man lives not for the fulfilment of his destiny, not for the incarnation of an idea, not for progress, but solely because he was born;

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known.

Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.

Society is founded not on the ideals but on the nature of man

Men readily listen to Utopias, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when someone is heard denouncing the evils now existing,... which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, arise from quite another source—the wickedness of human nature.

men and women have gambled in every age. In every age men have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt;

Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer.

Law is necessary because men are subject to passions; if all men were reasonable, law would be superfluous.

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed[.]

Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

Probably every vice was once a virtue … Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

In general, the wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done the opposite; and so it will continue. For, as Voltaire says, we shall leave the world as foolish and wicked as we found it."65

That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only

But how far has human nature changed in the course of history? Theoretically there must have been some change; natural selection has presumably operated upon psychological as well as upon physiological variations. Nevertheless, known history shows little alteration in the conduct of mankind.

human intelligence is by definition what humans naturally do...

Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Åžeytan'?n sesi: Bütün Mukaddes Kitaplar veya kutsal buyruklar ÅŸu Yanl??lara yol açm??t?r: 1. Ä°nsan?n gerçek iki varoluÅŸ kaidesi vard?r, yani Bedeni ve Ruhu. 2. Kötülük denen Enerji yaln?zca Bedenden, Ä°yilik denen Ak?l ise yaln?zca Ruhtand?r. 3. Tanr?, Enerjisinin peÅŸinden gittiÄŸi için Ä°nsana Ebediyette eziyet edecektir.