Human nature Quotes

"Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand." "The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child." "The tendency to socialize is primitive and for this reason progress finds a degree of acceptance on all sides and is not met with as much opposition as formerly." "Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay" "There's a dark side to everything" "There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people" "The prettiest people do the ugliest things" "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots" "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it." "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "Man is the storytelling animal." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." "To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. " "What is love? Love is the opposite of fear." "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."