Quotes About Human nature

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being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.

Recordando a Needleman Needleman no era un hombre fácil de comprender. Su reticencia era tenida por frialdad, pero poseía una gran capacidad de compasión.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.

Human nature always retains its spiritual character - its bond with the transcendent and the divine. If it were to lose this, it must lose itself and become the servant of lower powers, so that secular civilization, as Nietzsche saw, inevitably leads to nihilism and to self-destruction.

People, generally, suck.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small—like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

Humanism was not a loss of confidence either in art or in art's capacity to exceed historical scholarship. For Panofsky humanism meant dedication to a balanced ideal of human nature. As such, it was a formal concept. Humanism sees asymmetries and imbalances in human nature as deformations. Humanism is the form classicism takes after the discrediting of the Idea.

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.

Tal vez la lección más dura que Han había aprendido era que nadie es totalmente bueno o malo. Todo el mundo es una mezcla de ambas cosas.

We are all thieves of one kind or another.

Sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk meludahi lawan yang lemah,. Tetapi bila kita menghadapi lawan yang kuat, setidak-tidaknya kita merasa bahwa dia merupakan lawan kita yang pantas.

Het is omdat we allemaal oplichters zijn dat we elkaar verdragen. Iemand die het liegen niet aanvaardt zal de grond onder zijn voeten zien verdwijnen: we zijn biologisch gedwongen tot het onjuiste.

nel pessimista si accordano una bontà inefficace e una cattiveria inappagata

I wanted perfection. But it turns out, here on earth, we don't get perfection; we get people.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Federico Ozanan añade: «Hay dos clases de orgullo: el que está contento de sí mismo, que es el más corriente y el menos peligroso; y el que está descontento de sí, porque esperaba mucho de él mismo y se ha visto defraudado en su esperanza.

un point assez mystérieux et en tout cas non élucidé de la nature humaine : l intolérance a l incertitude, intolérance telle qu elle entraine beaucoup d hommes a souffrir les pires et les plus réels des maux en échange de l espoir, si vague soit-il, d un rien de certitude.

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself.

Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.

There is no evil in a man's mind, only temptation.