Quotes About Human nature

Oamenii se nasc predispuÈ™i la una dintre cele mai tenace È™i debilitante afecÈ›iuni mentale: autoam?girea. Cea mai bun? ca È™i cea mai rea dintre lumile posibile îÈ™i cap?t? din aceast? stare de lucruri coloritul lor tragic. În m?sura în care putem noi s? determin?m, nu exist? imunitate natural?. VigilenÈ›a se impune în fiece clip?.

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

À force de se lever tôt», pensa-t-il, «on devient complètement stupide.» L'être humain a besoin de sommeil.

El mundo es perverso y todavía encima se le ayuda

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.

Es la cultura responsable de la violencia y la corrupción que dominan a los hombres? ¿O hay un mal congénito impreso en la naturaleza misma del hombre?

Nazism was not merely a factor in the immediate past; it was a manifestation of a part of human nature, and it may recur at any time and in any place.

Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this 'living down', which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness.