Human Nature Quotes

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within." "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole." "Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear." "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." "Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." "We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us." "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."