Human Nature Quotes

"The individual becomes impaired, and the sum of individual potentials freeze to make a general force." "Where one man hates and another loves, there is truth." "What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend." "Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. " "Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man." "The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear." "The world is full of cruel men, but many of them are on our side." "History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging." "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom" "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider. That's scary." "The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck." "The more sin, the more justification." "If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war." "True love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all." "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." "People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories" "There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." "Sadness is a vice" "Men rise from one ambition to another, first they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others"