Human Nature Quotes

"For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human" "Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition." "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge." "You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary" "The power to do good is also the power to do harm" "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life" "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff" "I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see" "One of the strange things about old beliefs is that they are, as a rule, robust " "When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness" "The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good." "People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights" "Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises" "The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important" "To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature, and can alone give us that tranquility which is the natural and proper object of human desire" "Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him" "There's no lack of opportunity to take a guilt trip, we all do it some time or other" "The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them" "The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm" "The weak in courage is strong in cunning "