Human Nature Quotes

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good" "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother" "Humans have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life" "It has always seemed strange to me...the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness..." "We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome" "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil... there is no other story" "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt." "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct" "It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side, which consists not just of little weaknesses—and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism" "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking" "Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge" "A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good." "The worst enemy of peace is indifference." "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess." "The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge." "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones" "The discipline of desire is the background of character." "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us."