It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts....

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect...

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

I like the look of agony, because I know it’s true

…you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

In ancient times, people weren’t just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with...

Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships,...

Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died… Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you...

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don’t fall for their promises.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

It’s astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or...

Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to the idea of profound human tragedy. They were reluctant to give...

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies...

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

…the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn’t mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to...

Kevesen tudták, hogy ez a …nagyvilágiasan megközelíthetetlen modorú embert belülről, évtizede roncs már, …: csupa kétely és seb, emberfeletti erővel leledzett kétségbeesés.

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

what we are we potray that in our deeds…..

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world...

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective...

Humans are amphibians…half spirit and half animal…as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies,...

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people...

The power of a person’s mind is in the strength at the depth of his heart through out the length of his life.

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Human nature is always interesting… And it’s curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way.” – Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

Her zaman başka bir savaş çıkar, Robert. Kökleri hiçbir zaman tamamen kazınmaz. Savaşları ne alevlendirir? Güç arzusu, insan doğasının belkemiği. Şiddet tehdidi, şiddet korkusu ya da şiddetin kendisi bu dehşet verici arzunun aracıdır. Güç arzusunu...

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means “to draw out.” What needs to...

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

My God, these folks don’t know how to love — that’s why they love so easily.

Human nature says we can relax, that they aren’t fully loaded. That relaxation is not a bad thing, but it kind of deteriorates the focus aspect of the game.

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of...

Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a...

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone’s report of someone’s report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

Oamenii comunica intre ei prin semne conventionale si astfel si-au facut iluzia desarta ca se si inteleg. In realitate fiecare atribuie celorlalti ceea ce simte dinsul si atata tot. Legaturi directe omul numai cu Dumnezeu...

Man will destroy what man fears!

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that’s closer to human reality.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails...

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.