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Human nature Quotes

"We do not come into this world; we come out"
Alan Watts
"There is a mysterious cycle in human events"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
Bertrand Russell
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Bertrand Russell
"Forbid us something and that thing we desire"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed."
Martin Heidegger
"He who is greedy is always in want"
Horace
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise"
Horace
"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"
Ayn Rand
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man"
Erich Fromm
"Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity"
Erich Fromm
"We are determined by the fact of birth, by the bodily and mental structure we bring into the world"
Erich Fromm
"If there were no bad people, there would be no "
Charles Dickens
"Society itself is the work of minds seeking to master the mystery of man"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Basically, I'm a romantic. I think that people who create fantasies, fantasy worlds, are affectionately disposed toward their fellow man."
Woody Allen
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