Human Nature Quotes

"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge" "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" "The truth however ugly in itself is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it" "A human being is a deciding being" "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills" "We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire enough knowledge of the crudities of life" "All cruelty springs from weakness " "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted" "The imagination is not a state it is the human existence itself" "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" "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"