Quotes About Human nature

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

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.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Science is not inherently good.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.

The most altruistic man is the most selfish.

The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?