Human nature Quotes

"Whereas the Romans only persecuted Christians, modern man persecutes himself" "The end of rebellion is to protect the uniqueness of human beings." "The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits." "The ego is nothing other than the focus." "Every individual is a unique manifestation." "Half the people you know are below average" "I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters." "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing," "The trail of the human serpent is over everything." "For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness" "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers" "Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards both with equal eye" "We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls" "In this world, the mere apt to resist devotedness more than to resist godlessness" "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."