Perception believed is reality achieved

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that’s what witches are – human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That’s just you.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect...

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may...

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability – cause and effect. It’s the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth of home. The dreams of the wild and dangerous but the memories of childhood and gladness. She is perfection. And...

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child’s talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside his wooden sword, slingshot, bow-and-arrow and other childish games, when he begins to forge ahead, when the seriousness of...

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

Anybody’s true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God – who knows all that can be known...

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

,Se han preguntado alguna vez qué es lo que convierte en responsables a los hombres? Yo se lo diré: que solo tienen una oportunidad de hacer cada cosa. Si existieran máquinas que nos permitieran corregir hasta nuestros errores más estúpidos viviríamos en un mundo lleno de irresponsables.

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man’s nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

You don’t invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, ‘Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course, it’s just fun to think about.’And then, as though in trances, the people would really...

I am more human than rational.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

to make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Don’t be so proud for being educated then other,you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets

Two people of similar nature can never get along, it takes two opposites to harmonize.

The true champions of a nation’s freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet … and yet …Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear,...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in...

This attitude is basic human nature. We’d rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

When a man is an upright contender, only real people are bound to be around; but if he is a downright pretender, then fake people surround and always abound to be found.

As human beings we want to be as comfortable as possible, that’s human nature and when you do that you live a really really boring life.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

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

She’s not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its…motivation.

Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never...

But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental...

We can’t whine about nothing. We just got to grow up and stop whining and complaining about stuff, and make plays. I mean we got an offense that goes from No. 1 to not even ranked. I don’t know, man. It’s human nature to bitch and complain, but we’ve got to get over that.

…it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.” p28

Human nature is water, not stone.

To believe that man’s aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence....

Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let...