Human Behavior Quotes

"The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "When people are like each other they tend to like each other." "People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "As long as you know men are like children, you know everything" "The proper study of mankind is man" "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people" "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." "Arrogance is the cause of most first-world problems" "Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith." "You can reduce the annoyance of someone’s stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it." "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."