When people don't know what’s going on, it’s human nature for them to imagine a version that’s ten times worse than the truth!
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
The human soul is an abyss
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep...
Sometimes trials...Bring out the hard-hearted nature of a good person and make him unforgiving.And, sometimes trials...Help a socially snubbed person to live a humane life and make him appreciable!Its...
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitl...
I'm not perfect and I will not be one day.But I'm a human with mistakes and I do reconcilie with my mistakes
People will always believe what they want to believe, about you. This is due to the fact that people wish to create their own truths; anything but the truth that's real. My creed is simple: Let them!...
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.
Friends are thieves of time.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life... But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong—for we humans do, when...
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
She's not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.