Quotes About Human nature

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind, Thou art not so unkind, as Man's Ingratitude...

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love?Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

It teaches that man is an apostate creature, fallen from his original innocence, degraded in his nature, depraved in his thinking, prone toward evil, not good, and impacted by sin to the very core of his being.

to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature

There is a little good in all evil.

Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

As through this world I rambled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

People—and I'm no exception—seem capable of forgetting almost anything, much as if our island were unable to float in anything but an expanse of totally empty sea.