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Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
— James S. Corey
Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...'Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There are many lessons before you, some harder than this one... All too often things are blurry, though, John. It's the way of the world. Humans are blurry creatures,
— Charles Finch, The Fleet Street Murders
So everybody lives the way they're told to.The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair style, clothing, manner of speech, ideas, cars, houses, and everything. Just like they have to. Even the way we walk. But not all the time. Comes a time when everybody breaks out. And that's the only characteristic of human nature I know of. Not greed, not obedience, not violence, nor any of those things the capitalists would have us believe are intrinsic. Only rebellion.
— Helen Potrebenko, Taxi!: A Novel
Perhaps there is a beast...maybe it's only us.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.
— Heena Rathore P., Deceived
The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events - that the world beyond the skins is actually an extension of our own bodies - and will end in destroying the very environment form which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends
— Alan W. Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it.
— Sigismund
In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
— Milan Kundera
You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small.""Then what?" I ask."Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in."I consider this for a moment. "What if it's too small but you still want to live there?"She sighs. "Gracious, child, what a question. I suppose you'll either have to be brave and find a new home or you'll have to live inside a broken shell.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
Human nature was structured through the eons.What our environment of persistent scarcity has done to us during all that time is undeniable
—  it has transformed a particular behavior that insures collective survival in situations of scarcity into our “default” or basic code of behavior in all situations.
We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.It's kind of religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
What we call “Higher” behavior is elaborated by our abstract mind to ensure survival by an efficient cohesion of our clan.What we call “lower” behavior is to ensure survival at the expense of a rival, or to prevent the survival of a rival to be at our expense.So,Be they our “higher” and “lower” behavior/selves, our humanity and inhumanity, our “Divine” and “diabolic” trends, or any aspect of our Human Nature,All are created by our abstract mind to ensure survival in an environment of scarcity.But of course you can always choose to adopt “revelations” which present human nature as: A messed up image of a messed up supernatural coexistence between two messed up opposite supernatural entities with a messed up relation.Ultimately, we all think we choose by what we think we know.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.
— Michael Chabon, Moonglow
All life-forms are innocent, but man is the greatest innocent life-form that the universe has ever produced. Man is never created bad, as some primitive “revelations” claim. Man is both all-capable, and innocent; Man cannot have better attributes than the ones he already has. Once we defeat scarcity, the factor that has forced all our negative attributes into existence will be no more. Man’s nature is forged by scarcity. Man is a child of scarcity. Some men may currently live in abundance, even obscene abundance, but they still are the children of scarcity. We all are.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.
— F.W. Boreham, The Three Half-Moons
All involve risk, uncertainty, and complexity — and therefore steps that are worth committing to a checklist and testing in routine care. Good checklists could become as important as doctors and nurses as good stethoscopes (which, unlike checklist, have never been proved to make a difference in patient care). The hard question — still unanswered — is whether medical culture can seize the opportunity.
— Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to catch the problems clean up after them. We are not in the habit of thinking the way the army pilots did as they looked upon their shiny new Model 299 bomber — a machine so complex no one was sure human beings could try it.
— Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.
— Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
— Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean." Charlie to Beth
— Lynsay Sands, The Switch
What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
— Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning
Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.
— Machado de Assis
When you are in a dark place, you tend to sit back and wait for the light to come. But it won't: because, you are the only one who can find your inner light.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves.
— Paulo Coelho
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
People are simple. People are complicated.
— Mommy Moo Moo
Always compete upwards, as otherwise you’ll find yourself reduced as a human.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.
— Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll die of shame!” I made no attempt to dissuade her. I didn’t know what to do. We could see the father pacing back and forth in the little dining room next door. Apparently he hadn’t finished composing his attitude for the occasion. Maybe he was waiting for things to come to a head before selecting a posture. He was in a kind of limbo. People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don’t quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.
— Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.
— Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.
— Nadja Sam
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.
— José Eduardo Agualusa, A General Theory of Oblivion
Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.
— Stephen Colbert
To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.
— Becky Chambers
It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain?
— Abhijit Naskar
Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.
— Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.
— Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.
— Fyodor Stepun
I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order.
— Emmie Lee Dean
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order
— Emmie Lee Dean
Everyone’s got a little devil inside them, I’ve just learned to control mine that’s why you’ve not seen it yet; I advise you to keep yours under control before it ruins you.
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.
— Eraldo Banovac
Don't ever think you're alone here,We've just been trapped in different hells,And people aren't against you dear,They're just all for themselves.
— Erin Hanson
Perhaps the most striking aspect of this entire subject is that there are nonhuman primates so close to the edge of language, so willing to learn, so entirely competent in its use and inventive in its application once the language is taught. But this raises a curious question: Why are they all on the edge? Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it seems to me, is that humans have systematically exterminated those other primates who displayed signs of intelligence.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in the Mews
Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
— H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
You’re brave. You’re good. Why would you hesitate to explore yourself? Your dark nooks and crannies? With someone who is fascinated by the whole of you? You aren’t a bad woman, merely a human one, which entails a certain amount of”—he cocked his head—“‘awfulness,’ as you call it.
— Judith Ivory, Untie My Heart
But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.
— Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
So you've given away the old good and evil? asked Rose, amazed at all this rare talk from Quick.No. No. I'll stay a cop. But it's not us and them anymore. It's us and us and us. It's always us. That's what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there's no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts.
— Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
When we do something wrong we want people to forgive us but when someone does something wrong we never want to forgive them.
— Vignesh S.V., Adventures of Dollar Right
For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.
— H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli
We humans desperately seek stability in hopes, I think, that we can control our lives, though that isn't the way things work. Everything is in flux; we are dynamic beings born with expiration dates into an uncertain Universe.
— Larry J. Dunlap, Night People, Book 1
Humans are beasts, until tamed.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.
— Amit Abraham
I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Loneliness changes you more than time.
— viditi
You are sure you mean bliss?''Yes, an island or some place where we could all live or go to easily whenever we pleased and do all the things we wish to do without thought of the narrow-mindedness of others.''You are asking too much. Oh, for the Isle of Crete! You are wishing a return to the good old Pagan times when all honor was paid even to prostitutes.''No, not asking too much, just asking for a natural morality, a thing which varies with each bird, beast, and human and for which due allowance is not made in lawmaking.
— Robert Scully
In primary school, there are kids who learn their conjugations and their multiplication tables. Me, I learned something more useful: the strong get off on walking all over other people, and wiping their feet while they're at it, like you would on a doormat.
— Marie-Sabine Roger, Soft in the Head
You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
— August Strindberg, The Father
Believe you me, I am all for you; and wish you well - for you to go to hell.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
You’re either good, or you’re clever.
— Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing
All Mad"'He is mad as a hare, poor fellow, And should be in chains,' you say,I haven't a doubt of your statement,  But who isn't mad, I pray?Why, the world is a great asylum, And the people are all insane,Gone daft with pleasure or folly, Or crazed with passion and pain.The infant who shrieks at a shadow, The child with his Santa Claus faith,The woman who worships Dame Fashion, Each man with his notions of death,The miser who hoards up his earnings, The spendthrift who wastes them too soon,The scholar grown blind in his delving, The lover who stares at the moon.The poet who thinks life a paean, The cynic who thinks it a fraud,The youth who goes seeking for pleasure, The preacher who dares talk of God,All priests with their creeds and their croaking, All doubters who dare to deny,The gay who find aught to wake laughter, The sad who find aught worth a sigh,Whoever is downcast or solemn, Whoever is gleeful and gay,Are only the dupes of delusions— We are all of us—all of us mad.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!
— Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansion from a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurts others, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.
— Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil
Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.
— Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil
If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.
— Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.
— Daniel Egger, Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance. Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.
— Jane Green, The Beach House
Once you enjoy playing the game too much, you stop looking at the score..!!
— Aagam Shah
The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intolerance, and from altruism to greed. It’s good to realize, though, that if biologists never stop talking of competition, this doesn’t mean they advocate it, and if they call genes selfish, this doesn’t mean that genes actually are. Genes can’t be any more “selfish” than a river can be “angry,” or sun rays “loving.” Genes are little chunks of DNA. At most, they are “self-promoting,” because successful genes help their carriers spread more copies of themselves.
— Frans de Waal
We have a tendency to describe the human condition in lofty terms, such as a quest for freedom or striving for a virtuous life, but the life sciences hold a more mundane view: It’s all about security, social companionships, and a full belly. There is obvious tension between both views, which recalls that famous dinner conversation between a Russian literary critic and the writer Ivan Turgenev: 'We haven’t yet solved the problem of God,' the critic yelled, 'and you want to eat!
— Frans de Waal, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status quo. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and its resisted.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
...two chimpanzees were observed maltreating a chicken: One would extend some food to the fowl, encouraging it to approach; whereupon the other would thrust at it with a piece of wire it had concealed behind its back. The chicken would retreat but soon allow itself to approach once again--and be beaten once again. Here is a fine combination of behavior sometimes thought to be uniquely human: cooperation, planning a future course of action, deception and cruelty.
— Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.
— Aleksandra Layland, Bind Not the Heart: A Windflower Saga Novella
People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Checked thoroughly, humans stink.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.
— Jeremy Griffith, Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a long and ghostly life wandering the future and the past on its hind legs, looking for meanings, only to see in the eyes of others of its kind that it must die.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.
— Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
Usually, we hate the noise but sometimes we feel empty without that noise!
— Nikhil Karke
If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
— George Savile Halifax
Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.
— Agatha Christie
Desire of The Wings Can Broke you Own Feet.
— Yaganesh Derasari
To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.
— Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A man is a thing of many divisions, not a pure, clear flame such as you once were. His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires . . . his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them, he knows keenly the loss of that which was old, but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream. Whatever he does represents both a gain and a loss, an arrival and a departure. Always he mourns that which is gone and fears some part of that which is new. Reason opposes tradition. Emotions oppose the restrictions his fellow men lay upon him. Always, from the friction of these things, there arises the thing you called the curse of man and mocked; guilt!
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.
— David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.”“Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.” “I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?” “Those are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being— who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.” “Good. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?” “Again the human being— who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.”“Excellent,” Ravic said. “You see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have an idea that they will someday emerge from these in an altered state, which they symbolize with carvings of themselves with wings. However, we did not observe that any had actually done so.
— Margaret Atwood, Good Bones
It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.
— Eric Lindstrom
You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest ".
— Fernando González y Lozano
And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.
— Mariano Ngan, Cracks in the Armor
Sometimes trials...Bring out the hard-hearted nature of a good person and make him unforgiving.And, sometimes trials...Help a socially snubbed person to live a humane life and make him appreciable!Its called TIME that exposes people truly.
— Salsabeel
It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
— Sharon Kay Penman, Devil's Brood
as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it
— Sharon Kay Penman, Devil's Brood
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
— Steven Pinker
It suits here now to forget last year, but she'll never make me forget last year, not if I live to be a hundred. I didn't know much then. I know now that there's people like her who want to be friendly for what you do, not what you are.
— K.M. Peyton, The Beethoven Medal
Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.
— Anne Rice, Of Love and Evil
There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.
— Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until—bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its evolutionary inheritance and so remade itself in whatever image it coveted. The more sophisticated you became, the less you relied on fear and pain to keep you alive; you could afford to ignore them because you had other means of coping with the consequences if things went badly.
— Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward
Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after the other with a club. Together they could easily have crushed him— but they lay there, watching him come to murder, and did not move; he was only killing a neighbor— one neighbor after the other. The story of the European seals. The sunset of civilization. Tired shapeless Götterdämmerung. The empty banners of human rights. The sell-out of a continent. The onrushing deluge. The haggling for the last prices. The old dance of despair on the volcano. Peoples again slowly being driven into a slaughterhouse. The fleas would save themselves when the sheep were being sacrificed. As always.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.
— Lars Frodesen
I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
— Sarina Bowen, Him
But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their tablets out of the dispensary window. The old turkey-gobbler pet of the hospital gobbled up all the tablets he could find. He became so dissipated he finally developed a species of blindness caused by too much quinine. I cannot vouch for this, but I was often twitted with this story as an illustration of how the men were treating prophylactic quinine.
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.
— William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.
— M.  Jackson, While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
— Albert Camus
Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization.
— Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs
The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all that went on in church, believed that they must believe, because the higher authorities and the Tsar himself believed in it. Besides, though faintly (and themselves unable to explain why), they felt that this faith defended their cruel occupations. If this faith did not exist it would have been more difficult, perhaps impossible, for them to use all their powers to torment people, as they were now doing, with a quiet conscience. The inspector was such a kind-hearted man that he could not have lived as he was now living unsupported by his faith.
— Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
We all make mistakes. It is in our human nature. It just happens, it's nature's way to keep life interesting.
— Ariana Godoy, Growing Up
Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that any deliberate campaign to achieve it is so misguided, is that it isn't an achievable goal in itself but only an afteraffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to - by which I don't mean ethically correctly but fully, consciously engaged in the business of living.
— Tim Kreider
Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
— Melissa Kite, The Girl Who Couldn't Stop Arguing
Polarization breeds respect.
— A.D. Aliwat
Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.
— Paul Theroux
From Hinduism to the monotheisms through to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the common message is that we are all, naturally and potentially, inclined to reject the other, and to be intolerant and racist. Left to our own devices and our own emotions, we can be deaf, blind, dogmatic, closed and xenophobic: we are not born open-minded, respectful and pluralist. We become so through personal effort, education, self-mastery and knowledge.
— Tariq Ramadan, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.
— Lolah Runda, Hikari Okami: Kitsune Series
Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost.
— Rob Shepherd, The Grays Anatomy
Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?""I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."-Conversation between Majid and Mathias
— Riccardo Bruni, The Lion and the Rose
We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature.
— J.M. Campos, The Wall And The Abyss
She was walking into doors againA regular habit so it seems"From the Domestic
— Vincent S. Coster, Eat Not My Brother
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare, and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring, and co-operation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!”,Our Inner Ape
— Frans de Waal
Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are allborn, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death andmaking sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama
— Julia DeBarrioz, Cazadora
Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.
— James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, its pathetic victories and inevitable failures. The community of enslaved Imass thrived in this quagmire of pettiness. They even managed to convince themselves that they possessed freedom, a will of their own that could shape destiny. They elected champions. They tore down their champions once failure draped its shroud over them. They ran in endless circles and called it growth, emergence, knowledge. While over them all, a presence invisible to their eyes, Raest flexed his will. His greatest joy came when his slaves proclaimed him god – though they knew him not – and constructed temples to serve him and organized priesthoods whose activities mimicked Raest’s tyranny with such cosmic irony that the Jaghut could only shake his head.
— Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may well be that it was not a very exceptional one. There must have been many men who have had a good deal of the dog or the fox, of the fish or the serpent in them without experiencing any extraordinary difficulties on that account. In such cases, the man and the fish lived on together and neither did the other any harm. The one even helped the other. Many a man indeed has carried this condition to such enviable lengths that he has owed his happiness more to the fox or the ape in him than the man.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she’s dancing and she’s bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows.
— Milan Kundera, Identity
That was the way with folk
—  full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.
Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Be A Colorful Person Not A Chameleon.
— Yaganesh Derasari
Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.
— Eraldo Banovac
It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated — we are all meant to love and be loved.
— Auliq Ice
Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.
— Isaac Asimov
There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.
— Radclyffe Hall
We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.
— Don DeLillo
to make mistakes is human
—  to stumble is commonplace
Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
— Niall Williams, History of the Rain
It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.
— Clifford D. Simak
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants
—  and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this...
Because you learn things when you talk to people, especially people who aren't like you. You learn what a goddamned polyglot race we are, we marvelous human beings. Some people are friendly. Some people are gruff. Some want security. Others want independence. Some want the government to run things. Some want to run things on their own. Some people need a helping hand. Some people need a kick in the pants. Some want to live and to die in the same small town. Some want to ramble the wide world. Some are content with little. Some cannot stop striving. Some want to life beside a true love, to worship a single god. Some crave a universe of loves, a universe of gods. I could go on and on. The differences between them, between me and you, between you and the woman sitting next to you at the hairdresser, wearing that dress you'd never wear in a million years, reading that book you wouldn't touch. The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all, to represent them all. Not just the ones you agree with, the ones that think and act like you do.
— Beatriz Williams, Tiny Little Thing
People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.
— Monica Furlong
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.
— Piers Anthony, Split Infinity
If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.
— Yaganesh Derasari
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course, it's just fun to think about.'And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it-have slaves fight each other to the death in the Colosseum, or burn people to death in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in indistrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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.
— Mark Allen Smith
Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians... or just mindless butchers?
— Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
Don't be so proud for being educated then other,you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets
— Yaganesh Derasari
This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.
— Amish Tripathi
People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose...?
— Yaganesh Derasari