The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
Human Nature Quotes
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
Some of us are like wheelbarrows – only useful when pushed, and very easily upset.
At this day… the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his […]
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear; and you can’t change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism – not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The power of patriarchy has been extremely difficult to understand because it is all pervasive. It has influenced our most basic ideas about human nature and about our relation to the universe… It is the one system which, until recently, had never in recorded history been openly challenged, and whose doctrines were so universally accepted […]
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, […]
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
