Quotes About Human nature

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

I have been told, Corcoran O"Connor, that the heart has two chambers. I believe it because I do know that the heart has two sides. One is love and the other is fear. One creates, the other destroys. Not every person kills, but every person could. It is how the Great Spirit created us. I do not pretend to understand why; I only know it is so. (Meloux)

It is hardly in human nature that a man should quite accurately gauge the limits of his own insight; but it is the duty of those who profit by his work to consider carefully where he may have been carried beyond it.

Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.

Deism, therefore, or a Religion of Nature, pretending to make Man good and happy without Christ, or the Son of God entering into Union with the human Nature, is the greatest of all Absurdities.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.

humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control—often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But

S?r?s sl?pjas k?ds pretrun?gs sp?ks, visvarens sp?ks, kas liek cilv?kam vienlaikus tiekties p?c p?rmai??m un taj? paš? laik? pieprasa no vi?a patolo?isku uztic?bu pag?tnei.

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

Economics [...] has the advantage of joining an extremely simple model of human nature with extremely complicated mathematical formulae that non-specialists can rarely understand, much less criticize.

good' and 'evil' are concepts humans made up in order to compare ourselves with one another. It follows that arguing about whether humans are fundamentally good or evil makes about as much sense as arguing about whether humans are fundamentally fat or thin.

Pure greed and pure generosity are complementary concepts; neither could really be imagined without the other;

Human nature does not drive us to "truck and barter." Rather, it ensures that we are always creating symbols—such as money itself.

Let us emphasize (we really shouldn't have to) that Rousseau's effusions on the fundamental decency of human nature and lost ages of freedom and equality were in no sense themselves responsible for the French Revolution.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Investments in social and physical infrastructures create geographical concentrations of relative advantage to which capital is inevitably drawn. The free gifts of nature and human nature need to be produced before they can be gifted to capital.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.