Human nature Quotes

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." "As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask" "Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality" "People do not get what they want or feel unhappy if they do get it" "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients action pleasure and indolence" "All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary" "Man is a reasonable being and as such he always continues to act as if he were a free agent though he is in fact otherwise" "It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste" "Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."