Quotes About Human nature

Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoría de los grandes triunfos y grandes catástrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas.

In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

A person gives the same things which he/she has preserved inside them. You cannot get love from cruel person similarly you can't be hurt from kind heart person.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

Goodness provokes bitchiness. It's mathematical. It's somewhere in the human genes. Any number of lovely poeple are married to horrible ones. Read Middlemarch (Book 989, George Eliot, Penguin Classics, London) if you don't believe me. There's something in me that just can't let it be. Goodness is a tidy bow you just can't help wanting to pull loose.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Technology isn't what makes us "post-human" or "transhuman," as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It's what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.'1 Noam Chomsky

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No one really knows anyone. That's amazing, isn't it? We share everything, but we all have our secret gardens, too. We all have fantasies and fears and fetishes. We all have secrets about ourselves we don't want to share.

These people were utterly human. But what was human? Human was not just family dinners, human was also the Inquisitions of Philip, the extermination of the Mayans, the terrible Reconstruction of the Community. Human meant cruelty as well as love, human was protecting one's own at the expense of others. Human also meant having the capacity to change.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.

When he repudiates rites, man reduces himself to an animal that copulates and eats.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

But human nature is inscrutable: he was depressed at the thought of the disapproval of the very people he despised, at whose vanity and general behavior he had laughed.

La peur, plus contagieuse encore que la peste, se communique en un clin d'œil. Tous se découvrirent des péchés qu'ils n'avaient même pas commis.

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.