Quotes About Human nature

EM Forster, though, saw it a little more evenhandedly: 'when human beings love they try to get something. They also try to give something, and this double aim makes love more complicated than food or sleep. It is selfish and altruistic at the same time, and no amount of specialization in one direction quite atrophies the other.

She read Housekeeping, which Heidi loved because the odd people were the good people; The Handmaid's Tale, which she understood was terrifying even if the details were fuzzy; Giovanni's Room, which made her sigh, because people were so stubborn; The Professor's House, which she loved for the spooky dress form and Tom's trip to the old Southwest; and Anywhere But Here, which was Maud's favorite, because it starred a girl.

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.

You can't stop people from morphing the truth. It's human nature. I blow-dry my hair, put on make-up, wear high-heels. I've laughed at jokes told by men who simply weren't that funny. We create an outer identify to hide our innate vulnerability. But even deeper, it springs from the most primal desire we harbour.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.

A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required.

Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love is volatile and tempestuous and forgiving.

Look around you and look at yourself: the world is swarming with assassins, that is, people who allow themselves to forget those they claimed to love. To forget someone: have you really thought about what that means? Forgetfulness is a gigantic ocean where only one ship sails, the ship of memory. For most human beings, that ship is no more than a miserable tub which takes on water at the slightest opportunity.

En el amor, veo una artimaña de mi instinto para no asesinar al otro[...]

L'amour : c'est une maladie qui rend mauvais. Dès que l'on aime vraiment quelqu'un, on ne peut s'empêcher de lui nuire, même et surtout si l'on veut le rendre heureux.

Elle avait déjà pu observer l'effarante capacité d'oubli des gens : ils oubliaient ce qui ne les arrangeait pas, ou plutôt, ils oubliaient quand cela les arrangeait, c'est-à-dire très souvent.

corresponsales reina una idéntica ausencia de ley. Pero mi tendencia natural me empujaría a no conocerles, menos por prudencia que por esa razón sublimemente expresada en un prefacio proustiano: la lectura permite descubrir al otro conservando esa profundidad que sólo se tiene cuando estás solo.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.