Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Human Nature Quotes
ConnectionConsequenceHuman NatureOnenessTechnology Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
ControlHuman NaturePower Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Human NatureIndividualityRoutineSocietyWork Life Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
ControlDeterminismFree WillHuman NatureInfluence The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
CreationHuman NatureImaginationMythologyUnderstanding We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
CapitalismEconomicsGreedHuman NatureRationality While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
DeceptionHuman NatureManipulationRelationshipsSocial Behavior I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Good vs EvilHuman NatureInner DarknessUniversal Truth In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
ConsequenceCynicismDependenceHuman NatureRealism Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
ExperienceHuman NatureLearningWisdom We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
BeautyDivinityGoodnessHuman NatureJustice To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
CrimeHuman NatureJusticePunishment For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
DesireEmptinessFulfillmentHuman NatureMaterialism Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Human NatureMemoryReflectionResponsibilityValue of Money Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
CrueltyHuman NatureViolence The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
EvilHuman NatureRestlessness I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
CreativityDeterminismHuman NatureLiteraturePsychology It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
ConflictEthicsGlobal PoliticsHuman NatureMorality 'Sicario' is about how the Western world reacts toward problems outside of its borders. Should we become monsters in order to fight the monsters? It's not about the cartels. The movie could have been set in Africa or the Middle East.
CreationEffortHuman NatureProblem SolvingProcess Balance Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
ErrorFatigueHuman NatureSocietyStruggle The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
ExistenceHuman NatureInseparabilityPhilosophyVirtues and Failings Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
ComparisonDesireHappinessHuman Nature Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
DualityHuman NaturePotentialPower I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
