Quotes About Human nature

If our sociality motivates caring for others, it is also true that we are given to hate. We humans regularly derive pleasure from hating those we consider outsiders. We tend to find hating energizing.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said. Humans don't like that. They view it as a sign of ingratitude. I never asked anyone to feed me. That doesn't seem to matter to them.

For who needs devils when you have men?

What I do know is that if you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story , the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Los humanos son animales complicados [...]. ¿Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

It was baffling. These creatures. The were fraught and frayed win their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.

Quizá sea propio de la naturaleza humana buscar cosas ocultas.

We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn't like, and why, and what we would do about it given the chance. Such is human nature.

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

Tearing things apart (is) a powerful aspect of human nature.

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

No, there is nothing people will not do, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be.

A creature that could savor positive experiences indefinitely might stop striving, and hence be at a disadvantage relative to those who are less prone to stand pat. Some degree of unsettledness, anxiety, and ambition may be baked into the human condition. And much of this is connected to status—where you stand relative to others. I'm happy with my car, but then my neighbor gets a nicer one and my happiness goes away.

They find man a paradoxical being; one capable of descent into the darkest abysses of evil, and yet equally capable of ascent to the sublimest heights of nobility. They

If this interior experience was possible in the twentieth century b.c. it is also possible in the twentieth century a.d. The fundamental nature of man has not changed during the interval.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

God knew that we would convince ourselves that we are okay when we're not okay. So he designed a means for us to be confronted again and again with the depth of our sin and the expansive glory of his provision in the person and work of the Lamb, the Savior, the Redeemer—the Lord Jesus Christ.

Cain is in each of us. We lose our temper, feel cornered and frightened, it can be the work of an instant. But to savour murder - that's not the prompting of Cain, that's Satan!