To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Human Nature Quotes
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
