Why do you have to be the same as the others? …Most of them are stupid.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those...

Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that this evolution not only engages the strengthening of the body and it’s T-Cell...

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing’s impossible.

After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had...

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A...

What’s with all the cheering over the apocalypse, anyway? Oh, yay, we get to kill poor helpless humans.””The excitement over the apocalypse had nothing to do with humans.””Could have fooled me.””Humans are incidental.””Killing and destroying...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires....

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the...

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

People have been bred to hate for generations — eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for...

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It’s not about being right or wrong; it’s about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be...

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

The idea that I can’t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

People have always wanted to ‘improve’ human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something different from another, and yet so often it’s just the same thing with...

It is the task of the “science of man” to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called “human nature” is but one of...

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed;...

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don’t have the ability to handle what you really think about them

You know, there’s a place we all inhabit, but we don’t much think about it, we’re scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It’s in the morning, for...

One man’s gospel truth is another man’s blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we’ll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn’t agree with ours.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Most distinguishable about the idiot, Hedge noted, was their fear of that which was different. Those who feared difference always made a point of finding difference in others in order to feel more secure in...

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

The more we study human nature, the less we think of men – the more of man

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

What was Dr. Mera’s motive for murder? I don’t need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives...

The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice of slavery.

calculating” part of the brain) responded with a similar intensity to all decisions, regardless of the timing of the options. Brains that work like this would produce a lot of failed good intentions. And indeed,...

if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for...

The beauty of a person’s life is only an activity done with an unselfish intention for anyone in his life.

A person’s true friend is his own pure human feature and the surrounding mother nature.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the...

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

in these shitty plastic days …

The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of bad news throughout history have contradicted that claim, and little sound...