637 quotes found
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
“Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from...”
“Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts”
“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwas...”
“Against the claims of a violent "human nature" there is enormous historical evidence that people, when free of a manufactured nationalist or religious hysteria, are more inclined to be compassionat...”
“And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in which case every one is governed by his own reason, and there is nothing he can make use of that may ...”
“With human beings the urge to make peace takes some time to germinate, while Homo Sapiens is always ready to hate.”
“...for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.”
“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.”
“I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.”
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
“Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.”
“We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.”
“Humankind’s greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final conf...”
“The Truth is, “One sky, all human's !”
“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”
“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”
“I live in an ocean of smell…”
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our na...”
