human nature Quotes

"Man is a knot into which relationships are tied."

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

"Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made."

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

"So long as there are men, there will be wars."

"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning."

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never... ...

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.