Quotes About Human nature

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Basically, we are all chimps. The human side is at the front of our forehead, but the chimp is the part that lashes out. When I play, I am completely chimp-orientated.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

There's no such thing as a 'writing talent.' Anyone can be taught to write a good sentence. What writers are born with is a 'third ear,' not for words but for human nature. And like people with an ear for music who can play the piano without lessons or notes, we can't explain how we know what we know — we just know.

He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money . . . and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had!

The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate.

Guardate quanto gli uomini ingannano loro medesimi: ciascuno reputa brutti e peccati che lui non fa, leggieri quegli che fa; e con questa regola si misura spesso el male e el bene, più che col considerare e gradi e qualità delle cose.

I am struck most strongly by her introspection, solitude, perfect self-awareness and sense of purpose…The beauty and truth of her words have transcended the limits placed upon her life by the darkness of human nature.

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.

We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.

Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way—by example.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.

the drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable—except when you see it happen in the drawing room.

The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.

Thufir, I want you to examine your own emotional involvement in this. The natural human's an animal without logic. Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness. You're the embodiment of logic—a Mentat. Yet, your problem solutions are concepts that, in a very real sense, are projected outside yourself, there to be studied and rolled around, examined from all sides.

Conozco un esquema profundo que los humanos niegan con la palabra aunque lo afirmen con sus acciones. Dicen que buscan la seguridad y la tranquilidad, condiciones a las que dan el nombre de paz. Incluso mientras hablan, crean semillas de agitación y violencia.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature." "We live longer and observe more," he said. "I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Nul ne peut vraiment leur en vouloir. On ne peut que les mépriser.

I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it.