Human nature Quotes

"Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no further purpose" "Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes" "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another" "To understand is to forgive" "The more I see of men, the better I like my dog" "The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason" "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him bananas after death in monkey heaven" "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." "Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good" "You can't really know somebody and love them at the same time" "The nature of man is evil; his goodness is only acquired training. " "A person is born with desires. If those desires are not satisfied, he will seek to satisfy them." "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse"