Human Nature Quotes

Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Human Nature.

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan ma

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati

Art Science Mathematics Human Nature Human Maths

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the i

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)

Philosophy Inspirational Human Nature

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Science Evolution Human Nature

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in n

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

Life Happiness Humanity Inspirational Sadness Human Nature Inspire Humanism Living Human Life And Living Inspiring Being Human

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

Death Humanity Children Gratitude Parent Human Nature Epiphany Insight Contradictions Contradictory Love And Death Love And Loss

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must ce

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 to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

Carol Emshwiller

Love Dogs Human Nature

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic gro

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

Tiffany Madison

Wisdom Life Politics Truth Knowledge Human Nature Internet Information Age

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old stupid story - we aren't enlightened. We disagree, fall in love, and hate eachother, the whole spectrum of human experience. We have differences of opinion, and sometimes, we can't resolve those differences peacefully. If a disagreement goes for long enough, and is important enough, people start to take sides. Once people start to take sides, conflict is inevitable.

Zachary Rawlins

Conflict Love Human Nature

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-c

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Beauty Humor Humanity Friendship Insightful Human Nature Humankind Life And Death Insight Human Behavior Elven Elven Charm

he would now have comprehended that work consists of whateve

he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them consideralbe money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by s

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Science Human Nature Stupidity

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagi

I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.

Humor Inspirational Quotes Inspirational Inspiration Human Nature Humanism Inspirational Life Inspiring Humor Fear

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these thi

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.

Humanity Inspirational Quotes Inspirational Inspiration Human Nature Humanism Inspirational Life Human Dancing Feeling

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love;

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Rabindranath Tagore

Life Truth Love Ambition Human Nature

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nat

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Human Nature Uniqueness

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these a

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

Human Nature Killing

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength Liberty Individuality Force Human Nature Uniqueness

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitiv

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands.

Truth Spirituality Philosophy Soul Human Nature