Human Nature Quotes

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!" "There is no devil in the world, and no devil in nature, except that which man creates." "Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the" "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." "In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil." "There is nothing more boring than the truth." "The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief" "To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate" "Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond." "The mind acts upon the body, and the body upon the mind, by laws unknown to us" "Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves" "Love casts out fear, but conversely fear casts out love " "Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it " "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent" "People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death" "The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear" "Feelings are often deceiving." "Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes" "We are more than hardwired instinct and passion." "It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of the ideal he has pictured for himself."