Human Nature Quotes

"Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time" "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge. " "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment and misguide the mind What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride the never-failing vice of fools" "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." "I'm not Mother Teresa but I'm not Charles Manson, either" "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor" "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun" "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood" "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious" "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people." "Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance." "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" "The more people who love you, the more there will be that hate you" "Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations" "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster"