2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision.

Freedom is an inborn destination.Freedom is within our DNA.

Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

To live for soil and society is real humanity.

...alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,