80 Quotes About Nature-of-man

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

A true martial artist welcomes change; He is A catalyst, A cause, A force of nature

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

You can’t overleap nature with logic alone! Logic will presuppose 3 cases, when there are a million of them! Cut away the whole million, and reduce everything to the one question of comfort! The easiest solution to the problem! Enticingly clear, and there’s no need to think! Above all, there’s no need to think! The whole of life’s mystery can fit on two printed pages!

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

You could trust nature but not man