The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we’re so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Always know what they want to hear – not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn’t even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do...

What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of...

As much as I don’t care about those things, I think it’s human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we’re nothing but monkeys.

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its...

the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense...

To visualize that which doesn’t exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Despite the real danger of malaria, a wide swath of people of every age and education level and nationality all around the world imagine mosquito nets to be ‘confining’ and ‘suffocating;’ most others refuse to...

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.

You can trust everyone to be human, with all the quirks and inconsistencies we humans display, including disloyalty, dishonesty and downright treachery. We are all capable of the entire range of human behavior, given the...

A mortal person’s mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled – though as we’ll see, some of the...

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

A higher understanding of human freedom, however, is inseparable from a definition of human nature. To be free is to be able to flourish as the kind of being one is, and so to attain...

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

An ugly smile. An ugly soul.

It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life...

It’s natural for a man to defend what’s dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who...

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides,...

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. — Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency...

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life...

People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose…?

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the...

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will...

Is it frightening to be free? You said it. You say to people, “Throw off your chains” and they make new chains for themselves. Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Haven’t you got it through your head that human thought is a thing of the past & that philosophy is worse than Bertillon’s guide to harassed cops? You make me laugh with your metaphysical anguish,...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at...

…the enduring human need to be remembered.

He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims–the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people...

Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped

It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind...

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell...

Isn’t it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level...

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can’t neuter it.

By all means, become an abomination–but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.