People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. Read Summary
Such as we are made of, such we be. Read Summary
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Read Summary
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. Read Summary
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Read Summary
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. Read Summary
People don't like to make mistakes. Read Summary
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. Read Summary
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Read Summary
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. Read Summary
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again. Read Summary
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Read Summary
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Read Summary
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. Read Summary
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Read Summary
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Read Summary
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Read Summary
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. Read Summary
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. Read Summary
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Read Summary