Nature of man Quotes · Page 164

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

— Blaise Pascal

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

— Thomas Clarkson

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

— William Lyon Phelps

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

— Graeme Simsion

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra

Our human heart longs for more than a happiness in which the future is already compromised.

— Meicee

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

— Kobo Abe

“The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are…

— Michael Kenna

“Why does any human want anyone? My body recognises you as something that’s good for me. My mind recognises you as someone…

— Tillie Cole

“Humans, because they learn more about their predator and vampires because they wouldn’t have to go into lengthy speeches about their kind…

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to…

— Neal Stephenson

“The human spirit holds strength beyond measure, the kind that will break down the walls of all the blocks that come our…

— Nikki rowe

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on…

— Philip Yancey

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding…

— Haruki Murakami

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.…

— Irvin D. Yalom

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted…

— Mitch Albom

The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an…

— Michael Jackson

“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

— Aldous Huxley

“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was…

— Salman Rushdie

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

— Alain de Botton

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

— Phil Plait

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

— Deepak Chopra

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

— Anonymous

If humans were to be unarmed, / so perhaps than any other innocent person tobe

— Mak_786

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

— Jayni Chase

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

— David Icke

“A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”

— Dean Koontz

“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,”

— Brian Lee Durfee

Today Everyone has became pure commercial. Humanity and sensitivity are negligible now a days

— Mohd Aariff Khan

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

— Gore Vidal

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

— Adolf Hitler

“Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.”

— James Patterson

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

— Charles Edward Montague

“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.”

— Ayn Rand