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Human nature Quotes

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else"
Roald Dahl
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman"
Plato
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive"
Blaise Pascal
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
Umberto Eco
"We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love."
Fernando Pessoa
"We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings."
Alberto Moravia
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"
David Hume
"Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue"
David Hume
"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way"
Leo Tolstoy
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse "
James Madison
"The function of evil is to divide, separate"
Toni Morrison
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