Quotes About Human nature

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.