Human Nature Quotes

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "Man is the storytelling animal." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." "To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. " "What is love? Love is the opposite of fear." "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice." "The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases" "Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin. But fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all." "The best crime novels are about the ordinary things that bring people into extraordinary situations." "Constraint mutes the naturally cacophonous character of our feelings and intentions " "The desire to not meet expectations may be the only expectation we silently cherish " "All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure." "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear" "There is no sin except stupidity" "People are the strangest things. They leave you and they don't even leave you alone." "To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say" "Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained" "All human beings are doomed to die, but they are not born to die." "What does the brain matter compared with the heart?" "The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love"