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Human nature Quotes

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it"
H. L. Mencken
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"
H. L. Mencken
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher"
Ambrose Bierce
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"
Karl Marx
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is?"
C. S. Lewis
"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be"
Ambrose Bierce
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin"
H. L. Mencken
"The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being."
Immanuel Kant
"Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer."
John Keats
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Arkady Davidowitz
"Grown ups are complicated creatures full of quirks and secrets."
Roald Dahl
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves."
Bertrand Russell
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Bertrand Russell
"Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure"
Ambrose Bierce
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others"
Ambrose Bierce
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