Human Nature Quotes

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way" "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience." "Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny." "The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse " "The function of evil is to divide, separate" "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell" "The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs" "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them." "Forbid us something, and that thing we desire" "By nature, men love newfangledness" "Belief in free will is ubiquitous but problematic." "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself" "The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love." "All men should have a drop of treason in their veins" "There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future." "To love someone means to see them as God intended them" "The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man" "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half" "Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds"