Human Nature Quotes

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

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.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.