Human Nature Quotes

"What is a man without desires, without Free Will " "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire" "I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? " "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness the theologian all the stupidity" "A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants" "Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become" "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends." "Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other" "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in" "Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good." "Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself." "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." "The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar" "It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man" "One cannot live through a day without revealing oneself." "We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side"