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Human-nature Quotes

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history"

"The more people who love you, the more there will be that hate you"

"There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge."

"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."

"To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. "

"We hate the things we fear; we fear the things we do not understand"

"Humans are the only animals that can cooperate both flexibly and in very large numbers."

"Our minds have an amazing ability to not confront the most uncomfortable truths"

"People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple."

"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness"

"The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being."

"In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will"

"You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it."

"The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings"

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