Human Nature Quotes

They are the humans who are intelligent enough to have insight of every single molecular underpinning of the warmth of love, and yet not let that factual knowledge ruin the romance in a relationship.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belief in the Common Man is a familiar article in the democratic creed. That belief is without basis and significance save as it means faith in the potentialities of human nature as that nature is exhibited in every human being irrespective of race, color, sex, birth and family, of material or cultural wealth. This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life. To denounce Nazism for intolerance, cruelty and stimulation of hatred amounts to fostering insincerity if, in our personal relations to other persons, if, in our daily walk and conversation, we are moved by racial, color or other class prejudice; indeed, by anything save a generous belief in their possibilities as human beings, a belief which brings with it the need for providing conditions which will enable these capacities to reach fulfillment. The democratic faith in human equality is belief that every human being, independent of the quantity or range of his personal endowment, has the right to equal opportunity with every other person for development of whatever gifts he has.

~ John Dewey

There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.

~ Lolah Runda

We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One way or another, all humans are superstitious.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

I use the terms sky and earth because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.

~ Mark Tufo

Jealousy is not the remedy.It is the illness.

~ Gabbo De La Parra

Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love.

~ Amit Ray

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

~ Amit Ray

I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, one characterized by colonialism and so-called racial science. But I seem to be more or less alone in my conviction that, in all its primitivity, this anthropology continues to color the ways in which we conceive of human nature.

~ Marilynne Robinson

How can I escape a cage build by man?

~ Puredragonwolf

We are all part of the same rainbow. We are all reflections of each other. As unique and diverse as we are in character and skills, the source of all creation is as multidimensional as we are.

~ Suzy Kassem

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Truth is, “One sky, all human's !

~ Nikhil Karke

While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason. Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species; and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts--a somewhat broader range of subjects than is usually included under the humanities. Indeed, in its common usage this very word seems to reflect a peculiar narrowness of vision about what is human. Mathematics is as much a humanity as poetry.

~ Carl Sagan

Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. So here the monkeys were, poking the shiny box and making guesses about what it did.

~ James S.a. Corey

To preserve the past is to save the future...

~ Nanette L. Avery

We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.

~ Marilynne Robinson

We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.

~ Rick Yancey

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

~ George Eliot

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature, it agitated me to pain sometimes.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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.

~ John Marsden

I live in an ocean of smell…

~ Rebecca Wells

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

~ Albert Hofmann

Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would watch unmovedif we destroyed the entire human raceI hate Naturethis passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-facethat can bear everythingthis goads us to greater and greater acts

~ Peter Weiss

The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied half the horizon, had for the first time in her life awoken in her a sense of the contrarieties that are in our longings.

~ W.g. Sebald

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

~ Joseph Conrad

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

~ E.m. Forster

We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not accepting of the fact that we live in a profoundly brutal world. I don't fully approve of the way nature works. This lifetime of study has left me disappointed by the brutality of it all.It has also made me more sympathetic to the human condition and the many unbearable circumstances we find ourselves in. You and I are lucky in this part of the world not to experience the sort of wretched life that is a reality for so many.

~ Joe Hutto

When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control it proliferates laws of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed.

~ Alan W. Watts

It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We can always be humanMeeting each day a wise new manBut the Animal Kingdom to which we belongAnimals we are, this truth can’t be wrong.

~ Munia Khan