2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because we so rarely see a clear purpose for ourselves.

There is nothing that makes humans intrinsically- morally or genetically- superior to animals.

I live in an ocean of smell…