the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering...

It’s so easy to understand even an unknown person’s real nature through the things that he likes, but it’s possible only to a few people who are actually caring to others for being true to...

I also knew I had inherited the name of the world’s most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn’t give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter,...

Writing isn’t about creating perfect characters. There’s no such thing. It’s about creating characters that are real; flawed– yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn’t make them weak;...

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?

I am Envy…I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature’s mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word ‘judgment’ has become a curse word, period. The issue isn’t whether or not we’re insightful enough to avoid being judgmental,...

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Why was it, she asked herself, that “animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

People grow, but they don’t change.

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and...

I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It’s what being human is all about.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a...

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was...

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called ‘personal’ for a reason.

You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when...

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they’ve been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each...

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they...

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage...

Never try to change the nature of anyone in your life, you will loose respect and eventually the person.

A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.

If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, it’s because the intensity of such caring doesn’t exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective shield. I’m...

One always has hope for human nature

Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great...

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and...

At the end of the day, we’re all striving to be touched, somehow.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we...

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?” Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories...

Non passa mai, per gli uomini e le nazioni, il tempo di rendersi ridicoli e venire alle mani.

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

[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the...

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed...

A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave.

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for...

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.