Human nature Quotes

"All human errors stem from impatience " "There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level with terrific force." "Every man for himself." "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see" "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" "Our minds have an amazing ability to not confront the most uncomfortable truths" "If you are too smart to love, you will be loved by none" "We love those who hate us as much as we are hated by those who love us" "Since love and fear can hardly exist together" "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession" "The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once, and for one instant only, but to assure forever, the way of his future desire." "He who knows the pleaser to be false, yet still takes pleasure, is more complete as a human." "When one loses a sense of fundamental dignity, one is appalled by vanity in others." "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable" "Human beings are an extraordinary set of contradictions, at all times both horrible and wonderful."