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Human nature Quotes

"Logic and sermons never convince."
Walt Whitman
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"
John Stuart Mill
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
Will Durant
"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
Aesop
"The fundamental reason why the rationalist argument fails is that it presupposes a pleasure which does not exist."
Bertrand Russell
"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."
C. S. Lewis
"A moderately bad man knows he is not very"
C. S. Lewis
"We little know the thing that we fear"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"And thus does everyone find that which he fears"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right "
J.K. Rowling
"Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"After coming into contact with a religious man, I always feel I must wash my hands"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"To err is human"
Virgil
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
H. L. Mencken
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