Human Nature Quotes

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of" "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom" "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves" "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them" "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "We are natural learners. Learning is our default state." "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness" "The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them"