It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it’s always potent stuff, and dangerous.

Things to know from books to read

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something–something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the...

… the love of money is the root of all evils.” – John de Alençon, Pg, 64

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old stupid story – we aren’t enlightened. We disagree, fall in love, and hate eachother, the whole spectrum of human experience. We have differences of...

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...

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 can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

You don’t have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it’s the part of humanity.

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once innocent babes,...

Adults make mistakes too.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you’ve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants...

-,Qué es ser hombre, para vos?–Es muchas cosas, pero para mí… bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine...

You can’t change laws without first changing human nature… You can’t change human nature without first changing the law.

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.

One day people will come back. they won’t be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You’ll see. One day, this will be a...

Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.

Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that...

The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have...

Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but ‘love’ means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. ‘Love’ is the experience of...

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they’d abandon it.

Humans are the smallest organs of the human body.

The flesh,’ as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The ‘carnal’ spirit is the one that devours things for itself and refuses to make them...

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define...

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others…thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each...

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet...

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

Aber ich gestehe, ein wenig gefiel es mir doch, daß man mich für eine so hohe Persönlichkeit hielt.

…a man’s blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own...

I’m afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

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...

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

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...