2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

what we believe is most shameful and unique about ourselves is often what is most human and universal

Human nature - the Thucydidean pantheon of fear, self-interest, and honor - makes for a world of incessant conflict and coercion.

Nature imposes; man disposes

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... Čovječanstvo voli novac, ma od čega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ćeš... I milosrđe ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obični ljudi... Općenito uzevši, podsjećaju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

Others look different to us, because we are distant, the moment we get close to them, we'd discover that the differences are either inconsequential or an illusion altogether.

Until the billionaire and the janitor become equal in your eyes, you are yet to be a civilized human.

The soul suffers from nothing more than from not being understood. This is, though, its fate elicited by its own nature.

...and a picture of the solar system on the wall—we are a tiny, self-destructive dot in a mass of gray blackness.

The earth might move, but human nature only accepts the move when it suits human purposes.