2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

The ability to laugh is what differentiates man from the beasts, but evidently one cannot always get oneself in a laughing mood.

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

All human beings have a default happiness setting, I had returned to mine.

Bakit ganoon ang tao? Kapag kahihiyan ng kapwa, hinding hindi nakakalimutan. Lilibakin ka hanggang sa tabunan ka na ng lupa. Pero ang mga kabutihang ginawa mo ay agad na nawawala sa isip nila. Ibabaon sabay ng pagkalagot ng hininga mo.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

L'homme n'est rien d'autre que son projet, il n'existe que dans la mesure où il se réalise, il n'est donc rien d'autre que l'ensemble de ses actes, rien d'autre que sa vie.

Earth's gravity holds the water and holds the blood; the water from this planet and the blood from this planet cannot live in other planets