Human Nature Quotes - Page 33

• Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

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• Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

  E. O. Wilson

  Culture, Deeper, Humans

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• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

  Heinrich Heine

  Stupid, Bipolar, Insane

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mistake, Mind, Use

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• I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Sacrifice, Intelligent

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• Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Evil, Morality, Environment

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• Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Divine Power, Capable

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.212, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Humanity, Stressed, Atheism

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• I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nonsense

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• When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Acceptance, People, Rejection

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

  Octavio Paz

  Truth, Believe, Thinking

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• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Joy, Soul, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.77

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  Home, School, Voice

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• The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

  Norman Cousins

  Real, America, World

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• We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Block, Simple, Vision

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Wonder

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• What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Multitudes

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• Man is a social animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Potters, Poet

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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• The child is the father of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Father, Men

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• That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

  Minnie Pearl

  Remember, Life Is

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• The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• Brevity - the sister of talent.

  Anton Chekhov

  Talent, Brevity

  Letter to Alexander Chekhov, 11 Apr. 1889

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