Quotes About Human nature

Thus mankind cannot approach the waters of salvation but can only be prepared for them. For Prov. 16:1 says: "It is the part of man to prepare the soul." But human nature was prepared in this way by the law of Moses, because the Law prepared but did not give, just as a boy is prepared by the tutor to be fit for his inheritance, but it is the father who gives it. Therefore Christ or the faithful people in the Law already seeks to enter into grace and the church of Christ.

you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.' – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.' – Proverbs, 28:20 'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!' – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough 'The Latest Decalogue' Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola,

Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Love and cowardice are really the same thing.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

It's a human tendency to confuse simple with easy!

I don't think human beans are all that bad-" "They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as it takes them at the moment".

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Sabes? Mi padre no le era fiel a mi madre. A ella le sabía muy mal, pero ahora ya está bien. ?No es lo mismo en una mujer. Es su sino y la naturaleza las ha hecho para aguantarlo, pero la naturaleza del hombre es distinta.

Her estimate of human nature, and more particularly of her own sex, went up as the coffee went down.

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.

We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.