2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

And I don't care how scientific you think you are or how many letters you have after your name, you're one of us, bucko. You're a crazy Feeling Brain-piloted meat robot just like the rest of us.

There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all.

They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.

Menschen sind relativ wie die Zeit. Selbst mit allen Einheiten der Welt wird es uns nie gelingen, die Zeit wirklich zu messen. Selbst mit allen Worten aus allen Sprachen wird es uns nie gelingen, einen Menschen in all seinen Facetten zu beschreiben.

Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.

How amaze it is, that every little things in your life moving, growing, or even falling. They are all lovely complexities. Human process.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.