Human Nature Quotes

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" "There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness" "I'm a sinner who's probably going to sin again" "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct." "We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences." "I have a lot of beliefs and I live by none of them." "Perfection is always a dull and overrated state compared to being imperfect." "I can resist everything except temptation" "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die." "Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves their existence is not absurd." "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings." "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" "Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy" "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" "Instinct is something which transcends knowledge." "No good deed goes unpunished."