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Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.

~ Kenneth Eade

Kenneth Eade Human Nature Lies Lying

Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.

~ Sarah Chow

Sarah Chow Food Human Nature Humor

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.

~ Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson Human Nature Humanity Isolation Misunderstanding Silence Walls Work

The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literate, clean, technologically progressive, hard working, “modern,” sober, “orderly,” and so forth. Yet about human nature we get more concrete and more pertinent information from the Bible than from statistics dealing with secondary education, the frequency of bathtubs or the mileage of superhighways.

~ Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Bible Germany Human Nature Nazis Statistics

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

~ Ka Chinery

Ka Chinery Acceptance Acceptance Of Others Clarity Flaws Human Nature Optimism Perception Perfection Universe

Every day we all make little MISTAKES in life, but that doesn't mean we have to pay for them for the rest of our lives.Sometimes GOOD people make BAD choices, but that doesn't mean we are BAD people...It just means we are HUMAN!

~ Karen Gibbs

Karen Gibbs Human Nature Inspirational Attitude Life Lessons Mistakes We Make

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and traders, who spent their working lives in Malaya were ordinary people ordinarily satisfied with their station in life. They did the jobs they were paid to do more or less competently,. They were as happy with their wives as are most married couples. They led humdrum lives and did very much the same things every day. Sometimes by way of a change they got a little shooting; but at a rule, after they had done their day's work, they played tennis if there were people to play with, went to the club at sundown if there was a club in the vicinity, drank in moderation, and played bridge. They had their little tiffs, their little jealousies, their little flirtations, their little celebrations. They were good, decent, normal people.I respect, and even admire, such people, but they are not the sort of people I can write stories about. I write stories about people who have some singularity of character which suggests to me that they may be capable of behaving in such a way as to give me an idea that I can make use of, or about people who by some accident or another, accident of temperament, accident of environment, have been involved in unusual contingencies. But, I repeat, they are the exception.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham Character Characterization Human Nature

Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Abhijit Naskar Character Human Mind Human Nature Knack Tendency

Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

~ Oli Anderson

Oli Anderson Character Human Condition Human Nature Nobility Personal Responsibility Problems Strength Of Character Victimhood Virtue

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq

Raheel Farooq Character Emotions Emotions And Attitude Emotions And Control Human Character Human Nature Nature Of Love Nature Of Man

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio. Man never changes. He is always greedy, always acquisitive, always vile. I am speaking of Man in the bulk.

~ Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini Government Greed Human Nature

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

~ Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Constraints Government Human Beings Human Nature Justice Mankind Passion Reason

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

~ Thomas More

Thomas More Discovery Government Human Nature Peace Rulers War

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card Choices Good People Human Nature Hypocrisy Pretending Roles The Truth

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

~ John Green

John Green Fault Human Nature John Green Stars The Fault In Our Stars

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Human Nature

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Conversation Human Nature Weekend

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Human Nature

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Human Nature

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Human Nature

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas Human Nature Sociology

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

~ Max Brooks

Max Brooks Human Nature Scepticism Weakness Zombie

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling First Sentence Human Nature Opening Lines

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Good And Evil Human Nature

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Country Life Human Nature

Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the mind. You take your being from your mothers. You live fully; you were endowed with the strength of love, the ability to feel. Whereas we creatures of reason, we don't live fully; we live in an arid land, even though we often seem to guide and rule you. Yours is the plentitude of life, the sap of the fruit, the garden of passion, the beautiful landscape of art. Your home is the earth; ours is the world of ideas. You are in danger of drowning in the world of the senses; ours is the danger of suffocating in an airless void. You are an artist; I am a thinker. You sleep at your mother's breast; I wake in the desert. For me the sun shines; for you the moon and the stars.

~ Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse Dreamers Versus Reasoners Human Nature Romantics Versus Realists

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...

~ C.s. Lewis

C.s. Lewis Human Nature Temptation

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

~ Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton Creatures Human Nature Monsters Warnings

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Human Nature

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast Human Nature

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? . . . The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you.

~ William Hoffman

William Hoffman Greed Human Nature Misanthropy

It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but it’s writ large, and we love it.

~ Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston Epic Human Nature Stories Tradition

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Coming Of Age Human Nature Individuality

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Human Nature Uniqueness

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

~ Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton Human Nature

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious m

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Crime Enlightenment Human Nature Knowledge Law Malicious Philosophy Progress

The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre - wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race. Some people think the fall of man had something to do with sex, but that is a mistake...what Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they 'could be like Gods' - could set up on their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come...the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

~ C.s. Lewis

C.s. Lewis Christ Human Nature

She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be.

~ Veronica Rossi

Veronica Rossi Human Nature Teaser

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

~ Billie Letts

Billie Letts Goodness Human Nature

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated. The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. If mentioned, it tends to be in caustic, mocking terms, as something of interest chiefly to envious or deficient souls, or else the drive for status is interpreted in an economic sense alone. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first, it is no less complicated, important or universal, and its setbacks are no less painful. There is heartbreak here too.

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Human Nature
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