Human nature Quotes

"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion" "Secretly, we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be" "A lot of the time people don’t even know what they want until they see something new" "A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong." "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." "Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs." "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections" "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels" "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing " "I believe in the flesh and the appetites" "Nothing endures but personal qualities" "Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy" "If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it"