One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

I am sure when Cinderella went to that ball, she took a great deal more pleasure in outsmarting her stepmother than in the carriage and the ball dress and the glass slippers.

May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he...

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am...

You sneak a peek at the what-ifs. It’s human nature.

Believe in human beings – not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn’t mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return

S azon felül ráérdemelt egy kis leckére az álnok és kétszínű emberiség, mely nem hisz a maga által hirdetett igazságokban sem, ha ezek valóságosan előlépnek

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done – these are traits of the human race at large.

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff” (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was...

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life… But they’ve learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when the...

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure...

Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would watch unmovedif we destroyed the entire human raceI hate Naturethis passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-facethat can bear everythingthis goads us to...

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows...

Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some...

What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply human nature. All the worlds nations, therefore, have a great deal in common...

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or...

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.