2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions.

When the heart unlearns every bit of selfishness that keeps it from assimilating the world, that's when the animal goes to sleep and the human wakes up.

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

You are human only when the very title sends a galvanic wave of courage and conscience into the hearts of others. You are human only when any creature bearing that title becomes near and dear to you, no matter their faith, language and culture.

Computers are binary, not people. All people are non-binary, for life is non-binary.

We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have no cares themselves, have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives...Zeus the Thunderer has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, in which he keeps his gifts, the evils in one and the blessings in the other.

Civility applies while dealing with humans, but while dealing with primitive apes in the shape of humans, you must be firm, because if you are not, these apes will turn this world back into the jungle whence we came.

Арогантен е, който се мисли за бог.И арогантен е бог, помисли си Тийрън, загледан през прозореца, който се мисли за човек.