Human Nature Quotes

"The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character" "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Once you label me you negate me." "The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone" "The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life" "Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion" "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best" "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope" "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite" "Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do" "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease" "It is [the] certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel." "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."