Human Nature Quotes

"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies." "Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest." "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." "You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”" "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." "It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement." "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed." "It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." "Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything." "What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." "To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness." "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" "People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway." "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."