Human nature Quotes

"All human beings are doomed to die, but they are not born to die." "What does the brain matter compared with the heart?" "The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love" "Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good" "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother" "Humans have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life" "It has always seemed strange to me...the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness..." "We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome" "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil... there is no other story" "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct" "It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side, which consists not just of little weaknesses—and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism" "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking" "Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge"