2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.'' [...] To be a perfect animal and a perfect human - that was the ideal.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination.

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

The human mind is full of doubt. But only humans in the silence of their minds can realise they are part and parcel of the whole and reach yoga. The enlightenment. Doubtless awareness. Complete harmony with nature. Absolute state.

The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong to their species.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?