2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

The problem with the world is that people are busy searching for keys but don’t know the locks that they would open.

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

He is: frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

We are the children of the delicate romance between Good and Evil

Despite all their hopes for the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians could not escape the natural human fear of death and its many unknowns.

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz says that humans are ‘symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking’ animals. In our species, he says, ‘the drive to make sense out of our experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and as pressing as the more familiar biological needs.’ To Geertz, a human being is an organism ‘which cannot live in a world it is unable to understand.

Humans. We are intelligent. We are destructive. We are complex creatures.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.