Human Nature Quotes

"The human body is essentially something that is other than an animal organism." "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form" "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery." "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness." "People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." "The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself" "We think too much and feel too little" "I feel like money makes you more of who you already are." "It is not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true" "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends" "Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god." "6: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." "8: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world" "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." "The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all." "The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside." "The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."