Human Nature Quotes

"People do not get what they want or feel unhappy if they do get it" "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients action pleasure and indolence" "All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary" "Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise" "It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste" "Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." "You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven" "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood" "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" "All human beings have the same weaknesses." "Everybody has a secret world inside of them." "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protest against change particularly change for the better" "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity " "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks "