Human Nature Quotes

"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom." "You can’t predict people’s emotions Don't even try. Instead, wait for those emotions to hit extremes, and then take action against them" "Humans are the only animals that can cooperate both flexibly and in very large numbers." "Homo sapiens is the only species on Earth capable of imagining things that do not really exist." "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." "The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires." "As it has been said Love and a cough cannot be concealed Even a small cough Even a small love" "Man is what he believes." "Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of" "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom" "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves" "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them" "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."