Human nature Quotes

"You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven" "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood" "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" "All human beings have the same weaknesses." "Everybody has a secret world inside of them." "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself" "It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protest against change particularly change for the better" "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity " "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks " "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man" "The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is"