Human nature Quotes

"Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man." "The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear." "The world is full of cruel men, but many of them are on our side." "History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging." "Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom" "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." "The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck." "The more sin, the more justification." "If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war." "True love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all." "People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories" "Sadness is a vice" "Men rise from one ambition to another, first they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others" "Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper" "The passion for enquiry, the study of human nature, "